WIP v1.2: Portugal

africa

@@ -105,11 +105,11 @@ Zone	Africa/Algiers	0:12:12 -	LMT	1891 Mar 16
 #
 # From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
 # Shanks gives 1907 for the transition to +02.
-# For now, ignore that and follow the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree
+# For now, ignore that and follow the 1911-05-24 Portuguese decree
 # (see Europe/Lisbon).
 #
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 -	LMT	1912 Jan 01  2:00u # Praia
+Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 -	LMT	1912 Jan  1  2:00u # Praia
 			-2:00	-	-02	1942 Sep
 			-2:00	1:00	-01	1945 Oct 15
 			-2:00	-	-02	1975 Nov 25  2:00
@@ -345,9 +345,9 @@ Zone	Africa/Cairo	2:05:09 -	LMT	1900 Oct
 
 # Guinea-Bissau
 #
-# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
+# From Tim Parenti (2024-03-XXX), per Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
 # Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT,
-# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree
+# evidently confusing a date given for the Portuguese decree
 # (see Europe/Lisbon) with the date that it took effect.
 #
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -1102,9 +1102,8 @@ Zone Africa/El_Aaiun	-0:52:48 -	LMT	1934 Jan # El Aaiún
 # Zimbabwe
 #
 # Shanks gives 1903-03-01 for the transition to CAT.
-# Perhaps the 1911-05-26 Portuguese decree
-# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
-# merely made it official?
+# Perhaps the 1911-05-24 Portuguese decree merely made it official?
+# (See Europe/Lisbon.)
 #
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Africa/Maputo	2:10:20 -	LMT	1903 Mar

asia

@@ -1210,6 +1210,13 @@ Zone	Asia/Tbilisi	2:59:11 -	LMT	1880
 
 # East Timor
 
+# From Tim Parenti (2024-03-XXX):
+# The 1912-01-01 transition occurred at 00:00 new time, per the 1911-05-24
+# Portuguese decree (see Europe/Lisbon).  A provision in article 5(c) of the
+# decree prescribed that Timor "will keep counting time in harmony with
+# neighboring foreign colonies, [for] as long as they do not adopt the time
+# that belongs to them in [the Washington Convention] system."
+
 # See Indonesia for the 1945 transition.
 
 # From João Carrascalão, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
@@ -1233,7 +1240,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Tbilisi	2:59:11 -	LMT	1880
 # midnight on Saturday, September 16.
 
 # Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Asia/Dili	8:22:20 -	LMT	1912 Jan  1
+Zone	Asia/Dili	8:22:20 -	LMT	1911 Dec 31 16:00u
 			8:00	-	+08	1942 Feb 21 23:00
 			9:00	-	+09	1976 May  3
 			8:00	-	+08	2000 Sep 17  0:00

backzone

@@ -346,9 +346,9 @@ Zone	Africa/Lome	0:04:52 -	LMT	1893
 
 # Angola
 #
-# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
+# From Tim Parenti (2024-03-XXX), per Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
 # Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT,
-# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree
+# evidently confusing a date given for the Portuguese decree
 # (see Europe/Lisbon) with the date that it took effect.
 #
 Zone	Africa/Luanda	0:52:56	-	LMT	1892
@@ -1086,10 +1086,10 @@ Zone	Asia/Muscat	3:54:24 -	LMT	1920
 			4:00	-	+04
 
 # India
-# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a heads-up from Stephen Colebourne:
-# According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-26)
-# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
-# Portuguese India switched to UT +05 on 1912-01-01.
+# From Tim Parenti (2024-03-XXX), per Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a
+# heads-up from Stephen Colebourne:
+# According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-24), Portuguese India switched to
+# UT +05 on 1912-01-01 (see Europe/Lisbon).
 #Zone	Asia/Panaji	[not enough info to complete]
 
 # Cambodia