Re: tz data changes for Syria

Jesper Norgaard Welen <jnorgard@prodigy.net.mx> writes:

Oscar has a point. If we take the dates from IATA literally (and I suppose we should), then DST started one day earlier in Syria this year, March 31 at 0:00, not April 01 at 0:00.

Thanks for mentioning that; I missed that connection. I suppose they could have started a day earlier this year after all, so that the transition was Friday morning rather than Saturday. On the other hand my own impression is that the IATA data are often off by a day or by an hour, presumably because the respondents get confused by all the UTC offset business. I suppose it's worth a comment at any rate, but that can wait until the next proposed change.