Syria went to winter time this year at Midnight Thursday night (October 29-30) **not** Saturday night Oct 31-Nov1 as the tz data base presently indicates. We were in Damascus and had a flight on Friday morning -- so we had to get this right. Emirate airlines appeared to know about this at least several months in advance as they had adjusted their flight schedules for this date when we bought tickets in June. Probably the reason for this change is that Friday is the day off, equivalent of our Sunday in Islamic countries. This may become common in other Islamic countries. Regards from Ajman in the UAE... Tom Nash Thomas Nash home: +1 415 826 0165 4014 21st Street cell: +1 415 559 0718 San Francisco, CA 94114 USA nash@ligo.caltech.edu nash@fnal.gov tomnash@sbcglobal.net AIM: thomasnash@mac.com