* 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
* DST News claims
that Iran will adopt DST again from 21. March to 23. September (2008?). This
goes in hand with the 2006a version of tz data which starts DST in Iran at the
same date (2008-03-21), but ends it 21.st. of September 2008.
See
* Now several
sources have come forward to confirm that Venezuela will change GMT offset from
-4 to -4.5 at midnight 23.rd. of September. Unfortunately I have not been able
to find anything about this on the official government site.
Here are some new
links:
* 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).
I suggest that the
tz database could be updated with (some or all of) the above subjects. At least
the Gaza/West Bank change seems urgent since it was already implemented, and
Venezuela will change soon.
Regards,
Jesper Nørgaard Welen
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