On 3/27/19 7:07 AM, Tim Parenti wrote:
I think 2019a is reasonably "as close as we can get and have any hope of reliably disseminating in advance". At this point, any further release prior to the time change would be just as speculative.
It's a close call. If 2019a is right, of course we're fine as-is. If the development version is right, the spring-forward transition in 2019a is 24 hours too late. I think the development version is more likely to be correct, as it's the best guess of a longtime correspondent on Palestinian time. So I'm mildly inclined to put out 2019b soon (before Friday 00:00 Palestime time, anyway), if only to increase the probability that we don't have to issue a later correction for timestamps that by then will be in the past. I do wish the PA cabinet would put out announcements that specify a time of transition, and that we wouldn't have conflicting news reports about that that time will be.