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From 2029e0597f7cb8dd28845a44cdf132984ec7f76c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio Teixeira <antonio.teixeira@suse.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:10:32 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Improve historical data for the Philippines"

This reverts commit d4c65d53b9ff878291a0b103e0069f24628f6487
and avoids breaking some testsuites for other packages
---
 NEWS         |  16 --------
 asia         | 113 ++++++++++++++-------------------------------------
 zone.tab     |   2 +-
 zone1970.tab |   2 +-
 zonenow.tab  |   2 +-
 5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6ee43e75..83b8b8c8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Release 2025a - 2025-01-15 10:47:24 -080
 
   Briefly:
     Paraguay adopts permanent -03 starting spring 2024.
-    Improve pre-1991 data for the Philippines.
     Etc/Unknown is now reserved.
 
   Changes to future timestamps
@@ -15,16 +14,6 @@ Release 2025a - 2025-01-15 10:47:24 -080
     This affects timestamps starting 2025-03-22, as well as the
     obsolescent tm_isdst flags starting 2024-10-15.
 
-  Changes to past timestamps
-
-    Correct timestamps for the Philippines before 1900, and from 1937
-    through 1990.  (Thanks to P Chan for the heads-up and citations.)
-    This includes adjusting local mean time before 1899; fixing
-    transitions in September 1899, January 1937, and June 1954; adding
-    transitions in December 1941, November 1945, March and September
-    1977, and May and July 1990; and removing incorrect transitions in
-    March and September 1978.
-
   Changes to data
 
     Add zone1970.tab lines for the Concordia and Eyre Bird Observatory
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 32c52860..a2480b02 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -3665,70 +3665,21 @@ Zone	Asia/Hebron	2:20:23	-	LMT	1900 Oct
 # be immediately followed by 1845-01-01; see R.H. van Gent's
 # History of the International Date Line
 # https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines.htm
-
-# From P Chan (2021-05-10):
-# Here's a fairly comprehensive article in Japanese:
-#	https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/Philippine%20Time
-# (2021-05-16):
-# According to the references listed in the article,
-# the periods that the Philippines (Manila) observed DST or used +9 are:
-#
-# 1936-10-31 24:00 to 1937-01-15 24:00
-#	(Proclamation No. 104, Proclamation No. 126)
-# 1941-12-15 24:00 to 1945-11-30 24:00
-#	(Proclamation No. 789, Proclamation No. 20)
-# 1954-04-11 24:00 to 1954-06-04 24:00
-#	(Proclamation No. 13, Proclamation No. 33)
-# 1977-03-27 24:00 to 1977-09-21 24:00
-#	(Proclamation No. 1629, Proclamation No. 1641)
-# 1990-05-21 00:00 to 1990-07-28 24:00
-#	(National Emergency Memorandum Order No. 17, Executive Order No. 415)
-#
-# Proclamation No. 104 ... October 30, 1936
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1936/10/30/proclamation-no-104-s-1936/
-# Proclamation No. 126 ... January 15, 1937
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1937/01/15/proclamation-no-126-s-1937/
-# Proclamation No. 789 ... December 13, 1941
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1941/12/13/proclamation-no-789-s-1941/
-# Proclamation No. 20 ... November 11, 1945
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1945/11/11/proclamation-no-20-s-1945/
-# Proclamation No. 13 ... April 6, 1954
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1954/04/06/proclamation-no-13-s-1954/
-# Proclamation No. 33 ... June 3, 1954
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1954/06/03/proclamation-no-33-s-1954/
-# Proclamation No. 1629 ... March 25, 1977
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1977/03/25/proclamation-no-1629-s-1977/
-# Proclamation No. 1641 ...May 26, 1977
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1977/05/26/proclamation-no-1641-s-1977/
-# National Emergency Memorandum Order No. 17 ... May 2, 1990
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1990/05/02/national-emergency-memorandum-order-no-17-s-1990/
-# Executive Order No. 415 ... July 20, 1990
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1990/07/20/executive-order-no-415-s-1990/
-#
-# During WWII, Proclamation No. 789 fixed two periods of DST. The first period
-# was set to continue only until January 31, 1942. But Manila was occupied by
-# the Japanese earlier in the month....
-#
-# For the date of the adoption of standard time, Shank[s] gives 1899-05-11.
-# The article is not able to state the basis of that. I guess it was based on
-# a US War Department Circular issued on that date.
-#	https://books.google.com/books?id=JZ1PAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA8
-#
-# However, according to other sources, standard time was adopted on
-# 1899-09-06.  Also, the LMT was GMT+8:03:52
-#	https://books.google.com/books?id=MOYIAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA521
-#	https://books.google.com/books?id=lSnqqatpYikC&pg=PA21
-#
-# From Paul Eggert (2024-09-05):
-# The penultimate URL in P Chan's email refers to page 521 of
-# Selga M, The Time Service in the Philippines.
-# Proc Pan-Pacific Science Congress. Vol. 1 (1923), 519-532.
-# It says, "The change from the meridian 120° 58' 04" to the 120th implied a
-# change of 3 min. 52s.26 in time; consequently on 6th September, 1899,
-# Manila Observatory gave the noon signal 3 min. 52s.26 later than before".
-#
-# Wikipedia says the US declared Manila liberated on March 4, 1945;
-# this doesn't affect clocks, just our time zone abbreviation and DST flag.
+# The rest of the data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger.
+
+# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-04-26):
+# ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990:
+# http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/
+# [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires,
+# but no details]
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-14):
+# The following source says DST may be instituted November-January and again
+# March-June, but this is not definite.  It also says DST was last proclaimed
+# during the Ramos administration (1992-1998); but again, no details.
+# Carcamo D. PNoy urged to declare use of daylight saving time.
+# Philippine Star 2014-08-05
+# http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2014/08/05/1354152/pnoy-urged-declare-use-daylight-saving-time
 
 # From Paul Goyette (2018-06-15) with URLs updated by Guy Harris (2024-02-15):
 # In the Philippines, there is a national law, Republic Act No. 10535
@@ -3746,26 +3697,24 @@ Zone	Asia/Hebron	2:20:23	-	LMT	1900 Oct
 # influence of the sources.  There is no current abbreviation for DST,
 # so use "PDT", the usual American style.
 
+# From P Chan (2021-05-10):
+# Here's a fairly comprehensive article in Japanese:
+# https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/Philippine%20Time
+# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-10):
+# The info in the Japanese table has not been absorbed (yet) below.
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
-Rule	Phil	1936	only	-	Oct	31	24:00	1:00	D
-Rule	Phil	1937	only	-	Jan	15	24:00	0	S
-Rule	Phil	1941	only	-	Dec	15	24:00	1:00	D
-# The following three rules were canceled by Japan:
-#Rule	Phil	1942	only	-	Jan	31	24:00	0	S
-#Rule	Phil	1942	only	-	Mar	 1	 0:00	1:00	D
-#Rule	Phil	1942	only	-	Jun	30	24:00	0	S
-Rule	Phil	1945	only	-	Nov	30	24:00	0	S
-Rule	Phil	1954	only	-	Apr	11	24:00	1:00	D
-Rule	Phil	1954	only	-	Jun	 4	24:00	0	S
-Rule	Phil	1977	only	-	Mar	27	24:00	1:00	D
-Rule	Phil	1977	only	-	Sep	21	24:00	0	S
-Rule	Phil	1990	only	-	May	21	 0:00	1:00	D
-Rule	Phil	1990	only	-	Jul	28	24:00	0	S
+Rule	Phil	1936	only	-	Nov	1	0:00	1:00	D
+Rule	Phil	1937	only	-	Feb	1	0:00	0	S
+Rule	Phil	1954	only	-	Apr	12	0:00	1:00	D
+Rule	Phil	1954	only	-	Jul	1	0:00	0	S
+Rule	Phil	1978	only	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
+Rule	Phil	1978	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Asia/Manila	-15:56:08 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
-			8:03:52 -	LMT	1899 Sep  6  4:00u
-			8:00	Phil	P%sT	1942 Feb 11 24:00
-			9:00	-	JST	1945 Mar  4
+Zone	Asia/Manila	-15:56:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
+			8:04:00 -	LMT	1899 May 11
+			8:00	Phil	P%sT	1942 May
+			9:00	-	JST	1944 Nov
 			8:00	Phil	P%sT
 
 # Bahrain
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index d2be6635..bfc0b593 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ PF	-0900-13930	Pacific/Marquesas	Marquesas Islands
 PF	-2308-13457	Pacific/Gambier	Gambier Islands
 PG	-0930+14710	Pacific/Port_Moresby	most of Papua New Guinea
 PG	-0613+15534	Pacific/Bougainville	Bougainville
-PH	+143512+1205804	Asia/Manila
+PH	+1435+12100	Asia/Manila
 PK	+2452+06703	Asia/Karachi
 PL	+5215+02100	Europe/Warsaw
 PM	+4703-05620	America/Miquelon
diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab
index e7452043..7726f39a 100644
--- a/zone1970.tab
+++ b/zone1970.tab
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ PF	-0900-13930	Pacific/Marquesas	Marquesas Islands
 PF	-2308-13457	Pacific/Gambier	Gambier Islands
 PG,AQ,FM	-0930+14710	Pacific/Port_Moresby	Papua New Guinea (most areas), Chuuk, Yap, Dumont d'Urville
 PG	-0613+15534	Pacific/Bougainville	Bougainville
-PH	+143512+1205804	Asia/Manila
+PH	+1435+12100	Asia/Manila
 PK	+2452+06703	Asia/Karachi
 PL	+5215+02100	Europe/Warsaw
 PM	+4703-05620	America/Miquelon
diff --git a/zonenow.tab b/zonenow.tab
index 050d8a7d..01f536b3 100644
--- a/zonenow.tab
+++ b/zonenow.tab
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ XX	+3114+12128	Asia/Shanghai	China ("CST")
 XX	+2217+11409	Asia/Hong_Kong	Hong Kong ("HKT")
 #
 # +08 - PHT
-XX	+143512+1205804	Asia/Manila	Philippines ("PHT")
+XX	+1435+12100	Asia/Manila	Philippines ("PHT")
 #
 # +08 - WITA
 XX	-0507+11924	Asia/Makassar	Indonesia ("WITA")
-- 
2.48.1

 
From 2029e0597f7cb8dd28845a44cdf132984ec7f76c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio Teixeira <antonio.teixeira@suse.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:10:32 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Improve historical data for the Philippines"
​
This reverts commit d4c65d53b9ff878291a0b103e0069f24628f6487
and avoids breaking some testsuites for other packages
---
 NEWS         |  16 --------
 asia         | 113 ++++++++++++++-------------------------------------
 zone.tab     |   2 +-
 zone1970.tab |   2 +-
 zonenow.tab  |   2 +-
 5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
​
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6ee43e75..83b8b8c8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ Release 2025a - 2025-01-15 10:47:24 -080
 
   Briefly:
     Paraguay adopts permanent -03 starting spring 2024.
-    Improve pre-1991 data for the Philippines.
     Etc/Unknown is now reserved.
 
   Changes to future timestamps
@@ -15,16 +14,6 @@ Release 2025a - 2025-01-15 10:47:24 -080
     This affects timestamps starting 2025-03-22, as well as the
     obsolescent tm_isdst flags starting 2024-10-15.
 
-  Changes to past timestamps
-
-    Correct timestamps for the Philippines before 1900, and from 1937
-    through 1990.  (Thanks to P Chan for the heads-up and citations.)
-    This includes adjusting local mean time before 1899; fixing
-    transitions in September 1899, January 1937, and June 1954; adding
-    transitions in December 1941, November 1945, March and September
-    1977, and May and July 1990; and removing incorrect transitions in
-    March and September 1978.
-
   Changes to data
 
     Add zone1970.tab lines for the Concordia and Eyre Bird Observatory
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 32c52860..a2480b02 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -3665,70 +3665,21 @@ Zone    Asia/Hebron 2:20:23 -   LMT 1900 Oct
 # be immediately followed by 1845-01-01; see R.H. van Gent's
 # History of the International Date Line
 # https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines.htm
-
-# From P Chan (2021-05-10):
-# Here's a fairly comprehensive article in Japanese:
-#  https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/Philippine%20Time
-# (2021-05-16):
-# According to the references listed in the article,
-# the periods that the Philippines (Manila) observed DST or used +9 are:
-#
-# 1936-10-31 24:00 to 1937-01-15 24:00
-#  (Proclamation No. 104, Proclamation No. 126)
-# 1941-12-15 24:00 to 1945-11-30 24:00
-#  (Proclamation No. 789, Proclamation No. 20)
-# 1954-04-11 24:00 to 1954-06-04 24:00
-#  (Proclamation No. 13, Proclamation No. 33)
-# 1977-03-27 24:00 to 1977-09-21 24:00
-#  (Proclamation No. 1629, Proclamation No. 1641)
-# 1990-05-21 00:00 to 1990-07-28 24:00
-#  (National Emergency Memorandum Order No. 17, Executive Order No. 415)
-#
-# Proclamation No. 104 ... October 30, 1936
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1936/10/30/proclamation-no-104-s-1936/
-# Proclamation No. 126 ... January 15, 1937
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1937/01/15/proclamation-no-126-s-1937/
-# Proclamation No. 789 ... December 13, 1941
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1941/12/13/proclamation-no-789-s-1941/
-# Proclamation No. 20 ... November 11, 1945
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1945/11/11/proclamation-no-20-s-1945/
-# Proclamation No. 13 ... April 6, 1954
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1954/04/06/proclamation-no-13-s-1954/
-# Proclamation No. 33 ... June 3, 1954
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1954/06/03/proclamation-no-33-s-1954/
-# Proclamation No. 1629 ... March 25, 1977
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1977/03/25/proclamation-no-1629-s-1977/
-# Proclamation No. 1641 ...May 26, 1977
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1977/05/26/proclamation-no-1641-s-1977/
-# National Emergency Memorandum Order No. 17 ... May 2, 1990
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1990/05/02/national-emergency-memorandum-order-no-17-s-1990/
-# Executive Order No. 415 ... July 20, 1990
-#  https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1990/07/20/executive-order-no-415-s-1990/
-#
-# During WWII, Proclamation No. 789 fixed two periods of DST. The first period
-# was set to continue only until January 31, 1942. But Manila was occupied by
-# the Japanese earlier in the month....
-#
-# For the date of the adoption of standard time, Shank[s] gives 1899-05-11.
-# The article is not able to state the basis of that. I guess it was based on
-# a US War Department Circular issued on that date.
-#  https://books.google.com/books?id=JZ1PAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA8
-#
-# However, according to other sources, standard time was adopted on
-# 1899-09-06.  Also, the LMT was GMT+8:03:52
-#  https://books.google.com/books?id=MOYIAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA521
-#  https://books.google.com/books?id=lSnqqatpYikC&pg=PA21
-#
-# From Paul Eggert (2024-09-05):
-# The penultimate URL in P Chan's email refers to page 521 of
-# Selga M, The Time Service in the Philippines.
-# Proc Pan-Pacific Science Congress. Vol. 1 (1923), 519-532.
-# It says, "The change from the meridian 120° 58' 04" to the 120th implied a
-# change of 3 min. 52s.26 in time; consequently on 6th September, 1899,
-# Manila Observatory gave the noon signal 3 min. 52s.26 later than before".
-#
-# Wikipedia says the US declared Manila liberated on March 4, 1945;
-# this doesn't affect clocks, just our time zone abbreviation and DST flag.
+# The rest of the data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger.
+
+# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-04-26):
+# ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990:
+# http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/
+# [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires,
+# but no details]
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-14):
+# The following source says DST may be instituted November-January and again
+# March-June, but this is not definite.  It also says DST was last proclaimed
+# during the Ramos administration (1992-1998); but again, no details.
+# Carcamo D. PNoy urged to declare use of daylight saving time.
+# Philippine Star 2014-08-05
+# http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2014/08/05/1354152/pnoy-urged-declare-use-daylight-saving-time
 
 # From Paul Goyette (2018-06-15) with URLs updated by Guy Harris (2024-02-15):
 # In the Philippines, there is a national law, Republic Act No. 10535
@@ -3746,26 +3697,24 @@ Zone    Asia/Hebron 2:20:23 -   LMT 1900 Oct
 # influence of the sources.  There is no current abbreviation for DST,
 # so use "PDT", the usual American style.
 
+# From P Chan (2021-05-10):
+# Here's a fairly comprehensive article in Japanese:
+# https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/Philippine%20Time
+# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-10):
+# The info in the Japanese table has not been absorbed (yet) below.
+
 # Rule NAME    FROM    TO  -   IN  ON  AT  SAVE    LETTER/S
-Rule   Phil    1936    only    -   Oct 31  24:00   1:00    D
-Rule   Phil    1937    only    -   Jan 15  24:00   0   S
-Rule   Phil    1941    only    -   Dec 15  24:00   1:00    D
-# The following three rules were canceled by Japan:
-#Rule  Phil    1942    only    -   Jan 31  24:00   0   S
-#Rule  Phil    1942    only    -   Mar  1   0:00   1:00    D
-#Rule  Phil    1942    only    -   Jun 30  24:00   0   S
-Rule   Phil    1945    only    -   Nov 30  24:00   0   S
-Rule   Phil    1954    only    -   Apr 11  24:00   1:00    D
-Rule   Phil    1954    only    -   Jun  4  24:00   0   S
-Rule   Phil    1977    only    -   Mar 27  24:00   1:00    D
-Rule   Phil    1977    only    -   Sep 21  24:00   0   S
-Rule   Phil    1990    only    -   May 21   0:00   1:00    D
-Rule   Phil    1990    only    -   Jul 28  24:00   0   S
+Rule   Phil    1936    only    -   Nov 1   0:00    1:00    D
+Rule   Phil    1937    only    -   Feb 1   0:00    0   S
+Rule   Phil    1954    only    -   Apr 12  0:00    1:00    D
+Rule   Phil    1954    only    -   Jul 1   0:00    0   S
+Rule   Phil    1978    only    -   Mar 22  0:00    1:00    D
+Rule   Phil    1978    only    -   Sep 21  0:00    0   S
 # Zone NAME        STDOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
-Zone   Asia/Manila -15:56:08 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
-           8:03:52 -   LMT 1899 Sep  6  4:00u
-           8:00    Phil    P%sT    1942 Feb 11 24:00
-           9:00    -   JST 1945 Mar  4
+Zone   Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
+           8:04:00 -   LMT 1899 May 11
+           8:00    Phil    P%sT    1942 May
+           9:00    -   JST 1944 Nov
            8:00    Phil    P%sT
 
 # Bahrain
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index d2be6635..bfc0b593 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ PF  -0900-13930 Pacific/Marquesas   Marquesas Islands
 PF -2308-13457 Pacific/Gambier Gambier Islands
 PG -0930+14710 Pacific/Port_Moresby    most of Papua New Guinea
 PG -0613+15534 Pacific/Bougainville    Bougainville
-PH +143512+1205804 Asia/Manila
+PH +1435+12100 Asia/Manila
 PK +2452+06703 Asia/Karachi
 PL +5215+02100 Europe/Warsaw
 PM +4703-05620 America/Miquelon
diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab
index e7452043..7726f39a 100644
--- a/zone1970.tab
+++ b/zone1970.tab
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ PF  -0900-13930 Pacific/Marquesas   Marquesas Islands
 PF -2308-13457 Pacific/Gambier Gambier Islands
 PG,AQ,FM   -0930+14710 Pacific/Port_Moresby    Papua New Guinea (most areas), Chuuk, Yap, Dumont d'Urville
 PG -0613+15534 Pacific/Bougainville    Bougainville
-PH +143512+1205804 Asia/Manila
+PH +1435+12100 Asia/Manila
 PK +2452+06703 Asia/Karachi
 PL +5215+02100 Europe/Warsaw
 PM +4703-05620 America/Miquelon
diff --git a/zonenow.tab b/zonenow.tab
index 050d8a7d..01f536b3 100644
--- a/zonenow.tab
+++ b/zonenow.tab
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ XX  +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai   China ("CST")
 XX +2217+11409 Asia/Hong_Kong  Hong Kong ("HKT")
 #
 # +08 - PHT
-XX +143512+1205804 Asia/Manila Philippines ("PHT")
+XX +1435+12100 Asia/Manila Philippines ("PHT")
 #
 # +08 - WITA
 XX -0507+11924 Asia/Makassar   Indonesia ("WITA")
-- 
2.48.1
​
​

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