>From 622d4af59baccfe1bdcdbef6aca186f71dddcc63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 18:15:25 -0800
Subject: [PROPOSED] Israel observed DST in 1980 and 1984

(Thanks to Alois Treindl and Isaac Starkman.)
* NEWS: Mention this.
* asia (Zion): DST in 1980 (08-02/09-13) and 1984 (05-05/08-25),
with all transitions at 00:00 standard time.
---
 NEWS |  5 +++++
 asia | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f5d708c..d6cd8df 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     forward on 2019-03-10 as was predicted in 2018h.  (Thanks to Ryan Stanley
     and Tim Parenti.)
 
+  Changes to past timestamps
+
+    Israel observed DST in 1980 (08-02/09-13) and 1984 (05-05/08-25).
+    (Thanks to Alois Treindl and Isaac Starkman.)
+
   Changes to documentation
 
     Mention Internet RFC 8536 (February 2019), which documents TZif.
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 5d5cbd4..8af5e53 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -1620,6 +1620,24 @@ Rule	Zion	1974	only	-	Jul	 7	0:00	1:00	D
 Rule	Zion	1974	only	-	Oct	13	0:00	0	S
 Rule	Zion	1975	only	-	Apr	20	0:00	1:00	D
 Rule	Zion	1975	only	-	Aug	31	0:00	0	S
+
+# From Alois Treindl (2019-03-06):
+# http://www.moin.gov.il/Documents/�������� ������/clock-50-years-7-2014.pdf
+# From Isaac Starkman (2019-03-06):
+# Summer time was in that period in 1980 and 1984, see
+# https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3951073,00.html
+# You can of course read it in translation.
+# I checked the local newspapers for that years.
+# It started on midnight and end at 01.00 am.
+# From Paul Eggert (2019-03-06):
+# Also see this thread about the moin.gov.il URL:
+# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-November/027194.html
+Rule	Zion	1980	only	-	Aug	 2	0:00	1:00	D
+Rule	Zion	1980	only	-	Sep	13	1:00	0	S
+Rule	Zion	1984	only	-	May	 5	0:00	1:00	D
+Rule	Zion	1984	only	-	Aug	25	1:00	0	S
+
+# From Shanks & Pottenger:
 Rule	Zion	1985	only	-	Apr	14	0:00	1:00	D
 Rule	Zion	1985	only	-	Sep	15	0:00	0	S
 Rule	Zion	1986	only	-	May	18	0:00	1:00	D
-- 
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