Hi ! 09/03/2011 03:28 PM, ext Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] пишет:
2. Is the zone name "Asia/West_Bank" acceptable?
According to the file Theory, "names normally have the form AREA/LOCATION, where [...] LOCATION is the name of a specific location within that region" West Bank is not a location: it's not a city name, it's not an island name. Is there any other name in the database using a territory name for LOCATION? If not, why to break this rule? The next rule is saying: "use the most populous among locations in a country's time zone". According to Wikipeida (see [1] below) Hebron has the population of 163 thousand people, which makes it to the most populated city in the area, so the natural choice is to use "Asia/Hebron" as the area name. (the question whether or not is "East Jerusalem" a location in above sense is not really relevant, because the city of Jerusalem is ruled by Israeli authorities (if someone likes it or not) and thus the Israeli time is used there) Cheers, Ilya Dogolazky 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron
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-----Original Message----- From: Alexander Krivenyshev [mailto:worldtimezone@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 9:17 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: West Bank and the Gaza Strip will have different time zones
Steffen Thorsen<straen<at> thorsen.priv.no> writes:
Gaza and the West Bank did go back to standard time in the beginning of August, and will now enter daylight saving time again on 2011-08-30 00:00 (so two periods of DST in 2011). The pause was because of Ramadan.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416217 Additional info: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/palestine-dst-2011.html
Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com
According to the article in The Jerusalem Post:
West Bank and the Gaza Strip will have different time zones.
“…Earlier this month, the Palestinian government in the West Bank decided to move to standard time for 30 days, during Ramadan. The Palestinians in the Gaza Strip accepted the change and also moved their clocks one hour back. The Hamas government said on Saturday that it won’t observe summertime after the Muslim feast of Id al-Fitr, which begins on Tuesday…”
Fatah-Hamas rift now ‘fixed in time’ http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235650
or
http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip05.html
Alexander Krivenyshev - World Time Zone http://www.worldtimezone.com