It was somehow garbled. Namibia: We had an inversion of DST vs Standard time in the original KB938388 due to some confusing interpretations. The clock change dates were correct, but this fixed the DST period. Iran: We didn't get official confirmation in time for Vista or the Nov KB938388 on their elimination of DST. The only two recent changes that affected Windows were Newfoundland and W. Australia, that were changed after our KB938388. We aren't granular enough to track things like Nunavit yet. :)
From the official KB at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836
Updates from the previous cumulative Windows time zone update The following changes have been made since the previous cumulative Windows time zone update. This was cumulative update 928388, and it was for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003:* Central Brazilian Standard Time and E. South America Standard Time Legal confirmation of 2007 DST laws was not received in time to include in prior cumulative time zone update. This update also sets the correct time to 00:00:00 for both time zones. * Iran Standard Time Legal confirmation that DST is no longer used was not received in time to include in prior cumulative time zone update. * Namibia Correct DST start and end dates from prior cumulative time zone update. * Newfoundland Standard Time Adoption of the U.S. and Canada 2007 DST rules were signed into law after the prior cumulative time zone update was created. * W. Australia Standard Time DST trial period was signed into law after the prior cumulative time zone update was created. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:28 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Microsoft exec says Namibia and Iran have recently changed DST rules In an interview Microsoft published yesterday <http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-01DaylightSav ing.mspx> Rich Kaplan, Vice President of Microsoft Customer Service, Partners and Automation said "Namibia and Iran ratified changes even more recently" than December 2006. Has anyone else heard about this, or was Mr. Kaplan merely misinformed? Kaplan is also quoted as saying that Brazil and Israel are not on the Gregorian calendar, so I'm inclined to think the information got garbled a bit in translation....