* africa: Add a comment citing Latifa Babas’s March piece that persuasively disagrees with our pre-2008 Morocco data. Perhaps someone with more expertise in navigating sgg.gov.ma can dig out the original decrees and fix our data. --- africa | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/africa b/africa index 3517b84c..271bf87e 100644 --- a/africa +++ b/africa @@ -597,6 +597,24 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis # Morocco # See Africa/Ceuta for Spanish Morocco. +# From Paul Eggert (2026-06-26): +# In “Morocco’s GMT+1, a century of shifting time and a debate far from over” +# https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/191310/morocco-s-gmt1-century-shifting-time +# (2026-03-30), Yabiladi’s Latifa Babas reports the following: +# * A 1913-10-26 royal dahir established GMT as legal time in Morocco. +# * A 1918-05-10 dahir instituted DST on 1918-05-16 at 00:00. +# * A September 1939 dahir restarted DST on 1939-09-12. +# * A February 1940 dahir restarted DST as early as 1940-02-25. +# * Standard time resumed in September 1946. +# * A June 1950 decree restarted DST, which ran until as late as October. +# * Royal decree 455-67 (1967-06-02) restarted DST on June 3 at noon. +# * After 1967 Morocco used DST “during several summers, particularly +# throughout the 1970s and 1980s.” +# Babas consulted official records that disagree with and are surely +# more correct than our pre-2008 timestamp data, which came from the +# unreliable Shanks & Pottenger. Unfortunately, Babas did not provide +# enough detail to correct our data. + # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09): # Here is an article that Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time between # 1 June, 2008 and 27 September, 2008. -- 2.53.0
