Thanks for the heads-up. As you mention, reliable data for Gaza in English is hard to come by, but what little info I can find corroborates timeanddate.com. Here's a further proposed patch to the tz database embodying those changes. It assumes the System V patches I proposed yesterday and also the Georgia / Cuba/ Azerbaijan changes of a week ago. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/asia,v retrieving revision 2005.14.0.1 retrieving revision 2005.14.0.2 diff -pu -r2005.14.0.1 -r2005.14.0.2 --- asia 2005/11/18 06:54:05 2005.14.0.1 +++ asia 2005/11/23 08:18:53 2005.14.0.2 @@ -930,6 +930,9 @@ Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 3 # The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in # government's departments from six to seven hours. # +# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): +# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - @@ -952,8 +955,11 @@ Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S -Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 1999 2002 - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Jordan 2003 only - Oct 24 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 2004 only - Oct 15 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 2005 max - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 2:00 Jordan EE%sT @@ -1423,6 +1429,9 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, # and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. +# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): +# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. + # The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1433,7 +1442,9 @@ Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2005 max - Oct 4 1:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/northamerica,v retrieving revision 2005.14.0.2 retrieving revision 2005.14.0.3 diff -pu -r2005.14.0.2 -r2005.14.0.3 --- northamerica 2005/11/22 18:04:38 2005.14.0.2 +++ northamerica 2005/11/23 08:18:53 2005.14.0.3 @@ -2037,13 +2037,18 @@ Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1 # changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to # the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. # +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-11-02): +# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados... +# (2005-09-26) +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S -Rule Nic 1992 only - Jan 1 4:00 1:00 D +Rule Nic 1992 only - Jan 1 4:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1992 only - Sep 24 0:00 0 S Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Nic 2005 only - Sep 18 0:00 0 S +Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time?