The article linked to below has one line referring to Oman being on UTC +6.5 that doesn't appear to be correct. I sent the below to the author, but did not hear back. Does anyone know if there is some history of Oman being on UTC +6.5? "Hi Ashleigh. I just read your article at https://thenational.ae/arts-culture/why-gulf-standard-time-is-far-from-stand.... It's very interesting. But I noticed one apparent inconsistency that I'm curious about. The article says "At the time [referring to 1944], other time zones in the Arabian Gulf included Basra (Iraq) GMT +3 and Jiwani (Oman) at GMT +6.5", yet later in the article it says that Oman has used GMT +4 since 1920. Is this +6.5 correct for Oman? If so, what is the history of it? "Also, for whatever it's worth, googling for Jiwani, I find that it is in Pakistan, not Oman. And neither Pakistan nor Oman are along the Arabian Gulf (other than the Musandam Peninsula). From what I could find, it doesn't appear that this part of Pakistan or Oman ever used GMT +6.5. But if there is some history about either place having used this time zone, I'm very curious about it." Aaron On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 4:39 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
* backzone (Asia/Bahrain): Adjust transitions before 1944 to match Ashleigh Stewart’s article in today’s The National (Abu Dhabi). --- backzone | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/backzone b/backzone index 91fa21d..7cf026d 100644 --- a/backzone +++ b/backzone @@ -459,7 +459,22 @@ Zone Asia/Aden 2:59:54 - LMT 1950 3:00 - +03
# Bahrain -Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Manamah +# +# From Paul Eggert (2020-07-22): +# Most of this data comes from: +# Stewart A. Why Gulf Standard Time is far from standard: the fascinating story +# behind the time zone's invention. The National (Abu Dhabi). 2020-07-22. +# https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/why-gulf-standard-time-is-far-from-s... +# Stewart writes that before 1940 some companies in Bahrain were at +0330 and +# others at +0323. Reginald George Alban, a British political agent based in +# Manama, worked to standardize this, and from 1941-07-20 Bahrain was at +# +0330. However, BOAC asked that clocks be moved to gain more light at day's +# end, so Bahrain switched to +04 on 1944-01-01. +# +# We don't know when companies chose +0330 or +0323 before 1940; for now +# assume that there was no real standard in Bahrain before 1941-07-20. +Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1941 Jul 20 # Manamah + 3:30 - +0330 1944 Jan 1 4:00 - +04 1972 Jun 3:00 - +03
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