On 3/13/23 08:39, Tim Parenti wrote:
our predicted March transition dates for 2024 and 2025 also fall within Ramadan. If similar actions are anticipated in those years, it would be helpful to have those dates decided within the next few months so we can have those disseminated in a less rushed fashion.
Yes. Unfortunately we still don't know the transition dates for even this spring. And since the current TZDB release will be wrong for Palestine in about eight days, we need to generate a new TZDB release quite soon. (We also need a new release for Egypt and Morocco.) To try to help move things along I installed the attached proposed patch into TZDB's developmental database. Although this patch makes predictions for Palestine that may very well be wrong, they are likely to be more accurate than the current release's predictions, so I hope they are a win. Something like this should appear in the next release, I suppose. To help proofread the patch, I also attach a file Gaza-predictions.txt containing the output of the shell command "zdump -V -c 2023,2087 Asia/Gaza" with the patch installed. It would be helpful if a representative of the Palestinian government would check these guesses soon, so that the next release can be accurate for Palestine. The Gaza-predictions file contains two lines for every predicted transition: one just before and one just after. Timestamps before the "=" are Coordinated Universal Time; timestamps after the "=" are local time.