Dear Paul,
the accurate date will be specified tomorrow by the Palestinian Cabinet ,and I will provide you with it as I get the official decision .
BR,
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mar 18, 2023, 5:16:39 AM
To: "heba.hamad" <heba.hamad@mtit.gov.ps>
Cc: Rashid Hanoon <rhanoon@mtit.pna.ps>,
"laith.daraghmeh" <laith.daraghmeh@mtit.gov.ps>,
Time Zone Mailing List <tz@iana.org>
Subject: Re: [tz] Extended winter time
On 3/13/23 08:39, Tim Parenti wrote:
> our predicted March transition dates for 2024
> and 2025 also fall within Ramadan. If similar actions are anticipated in
> those years, it would be helpful to have those dates decided within the
> next few months so we can have those disseminated in a less rushed fashion.
Yes. Unfortunately we still don't know the transition dates for even
this spring. And since the current TZDB release will be wrong for
Palestine in about eight days, we need to generate a new TZDB release
quite soon. (We also need a new release for Egypt and Morocco.)
To try to help move things along I installed the attached proposed patch
into TZDB's developmental database. Although this patch makes
predictions for Palestine that may very well be wrong, they are likely
to be more accurate than the current release's predictions, so I hope
they are a win. Something like this should appear in the next release, I
suppose.
To help proofread the patch, I also attach a file Gaza-predictions.txt
containing the output of the shell command "zdump -V -c 2023,2087
Asia/Gaza" with the patch installed. It would be helpful if a
representative of the Palestinian government would check these guesses
soon, so that the next release can be accurate for Palestine. The
Gaza-predictions file contains two lines for every predicted transition:
one just before and one just after. Timestamps before the "=" are
Coordinated Universal Time; timestamps after the "=" are local time.