From 44a10a462caa3422cb9b09915b2bee2225f9d8f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Parenti Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 17:13:22 -0400 Subject: Palestine ends DST on 2016-10-29 at 01:00 (Thanks to Sharef Mustafa.) * asia (Palestine): Update fall transitions for 2016 and beyond. Predict future fall transitions on the last Saturday of October at 01:00, which is consistent with predicted spring transitions in March. * NEWS: Document this. --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ asia | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a3b5f1c..aa81a2d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes + Changes to past and future time stamps + + Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron end DST on 2016-10-29 at 01:00, not + 2016-10-21 at 00:00. (Thanks to Sharef Mustafa.) Predict that + future fall transitions will be on the last Saturday of October + at 01:00, which is consistent with predicted spring transitions + on the last Saturday of March. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.) + Changes to past time stamps In Turkey, transitions in 1986-1990 were at 01:00 standard time diff --git a/asia b/asia index 71ef878..d82d8c4 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -2558,7 +2558,19 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # # From Paul Eggert (2016-03-12): # Predict spring transitions on March's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on. -# Leave fall predictions alone for now. +# +# From Sharef Mustafa (2016-10-19): +# [T]he Palestinian cabinet decision (Mar 8th 2016) published on +# http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/WebSite/Upload/Decree/GOV_17/16032016134830.pdf +# states that summer time will end on Oct 29th at 01:00. +# ... +# http://www.pal24.net/news/90179.html +# http://palweather.ps/ar/node/31792.html +# +# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-19): +# Predict fall transitions on October's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on. +# This is consistent with the 2016 transition as well as our spring +# predictions. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S @@ -2587,9 +2599,10 @@ Rule Palestine 2011 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2012 2014 - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2012 only - Sep 21 1:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2013 only - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 2014 max - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2014 2015 - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2015 only - Mar lastFri 24:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2016 max - Mar lastSat 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Palestine 2016 max - Oct lastSat 1:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct -- 2.8.0