On 26/03/2019 22:50, Paul Eggert wrote:
For what it's worth, the more-recent news report https://www.raya.ps/news/1061956.html says " أعلن المتحدث الرسمي باسم حكومة تسيير الأعمال يوسف المحمود، اليوم الثلاثاء، بدء العمل بالتوقيت الصيفي، اعتبارا من فجر يوم الجمعة الموافق 29/3/2019." which Google Translate renders as "The official spokesman of the government of business, Youssef Mahmoud, said Tuesday, the start of the summer time, starting at dawn on Friday, 29/3/2019."
The Arab world ( or should that be a religious designation? is it just Islamic? ) does still lie to rely on using observable events as the key points in their calendars? Which does not help when on some occasions that can result in a change happening a week earlier or later. In this case is the time of a 'predicted dawn' a more acceptable compromise where an actuate time is not included in the 'legislation'? In practice it's just when locals involved in over night activities actually change the clock that is left somewhat flexible by this 'decree'? It's saying 'when you get up change your clock' ... rather than when the sun comes up ... although 'Salat al-fajr' first prayers of the day is designated 'dawn, before sunrise' rather than a particular 'clock time' so to Palestinians dawn is an accurate event and will be indicated by the first call to prayers! But somewhat difficult to document prior to the event :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - https://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - https://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk