For all these differences, I have had user feedback on time zone changes, but not found official information to confirm the changes (and therefore not reporting them here yet), but more indirect confirmation such as timestamps on online news articles and so on. 1. Jesper Norgaard Welen found official Nicaragua information - so indeed that is fine now. 2. For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year. 3. A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of the Ramadan. Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks earlier - the same goes for Jordan. Best regards, Steffen On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:
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?
Best regards, Steffen -- Steffen Thorsen - webmaster http://www.timeanddate.com