The dates I posted on December 31 are now finalised so the only thing I've changed in the data file is the comments. The following are context diffs for the file 'asia' extracted from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1998c.tar.gz -----------------------------Begin Context Diff------------------------------ *** asia.orig Sat Feb 28 19:32:25 1998 --- asia Mon Mar 16 11:26:28 1998 *************** *** 507,513 **** Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> ! # (1997-03-04 and 1997-12-31): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. --- 507,513 ---- Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> ! # (1997-03-04 and 1998-03-16): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. *************** *** 557,565 **** # # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997.ps.gz # ! # According to the Office of the Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Interior, ! # the dates for 1998 are tentative and are still subject to final approval ! # (probably in late February/early March of 1998). # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D --- 557,565 ---- # # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997.ps.gz # ! # The official announcement for the year 1998 can be viewed at: ! # ! # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1998.ps.gz # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D ------------------------------End Context Diff------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CS System Group, Phone number: 972-2-6585521 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Fax number: 972-2-6585439 WWW: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~ephraim E-mail: ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il