"Jesper Norgaard Welen" <jnorgard@prodigy.net.mx> writes:
* According to Steffen Thorsen's web site the Gaza Strip and the rest of the Palestinian territories left DST early on 13.th. of September at 2:00 instead of 19.th. of October at 0:00 as tz database has it. If that is true, Palestine therefore just preceded Israel which left DST on 16.th. of September at 2:00. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=702
My understanding is that Gaza and the West Bank disagree even over when the weekend is (Thursday+Friday versus Friday+Saturday), so I'd be a bit surprised if they agreed about DST. But for now, I guess we should assume they agree with Steffen Thorsen's info. For lack of better information, we can predict that future changes will be the 2nd Thursday of September at 02:00.
* DST News claims that Iran will adopt DST again from 21. March to 23. September (2008?).
Reuters is not so confident about the date; see <http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916>. For now, let's assume they revert to the old rules, which specify the Persian calendar, and next year would mean switches occur at March 21 00:00 and September 21 00:00. If we get more-authoritative info we can improve this later.
* Although there are no (English!) authoritative information about it, there are some web sites claiming Japan and South Korea will join a mutual new DST implementation in 2008, presumably at the same dates. Perhaps something could be put in the comments for these countries to document the rumour (SK already has some info on this in 2007g version of asia file).
Thanks for the heads-up. I think the current comments are enough for now. Japan has been talking about doing this for decades, but has never done it.