I'm trying to piece together the newspaper bits and pieces and compare with the tz database, and it seems that there is clearly some transitions missing. Specifically, I find the following lines confusing:
4:00 Iran %z 1979
3:30 Iran %z
Does that mean we think Iran switched from UTC+4:00 to UTC+3:30 on Jan 1, 1979?
Thanks a lot,
Roozbeh