Thank you Paul for your reply! It is a mess indeed. The problem now is that google and others are using 2023b and when someone searches for "Beirut local time" they get the wrong time. People who work remotely got all their calendars messed up. We hope that the illegal prime minister revert the decision, but we also wish, please 🙏, that you release 2023c even before that decision. Again thank you so much for your time and understanding. Regards, Joseph Khoury On Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 1:15 AM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 2023-03-26 14:56, Jad Baz via tz wrote:
Prime Minister Mikati calls for a cabinet session tomorrow (Monday) noon and the issue of timing is the single item on the agenda
Noon standard time, or noon daylight saving time? :-)
Anyway, thank you for the heads-up. In the light of today's and (likely) tomorrow's developments I suggest that downstream distributors stick with tzdb 2023a for now. The only change in 2023b is this recent controversial Lebanon adjustment, and if (as seems quite possible) the Lebanese government changes its rules again, we'll need a tzdb 2023c shortly, which will quite possibly be identical to 2023a except for commentary.
In short: stick with 2023a for now, and tomorrow let's see.
What a mess, huh?