proposed time zone package changes for Palestine, pytz home page
Below are two proposed time zone packages changes, the first to the "asia" file to reflect Palestine's change this year in the start and en of DST and the second to the tz-link.htm file to reflect the change in the pytz home page. If no problems are found, expect these to show up in the ftp directory this coming Monday. --ado ------- asia ------- *** /tmp/geta25630 Tue Mar 31 14:46:47 2009 --- /tmp/getb25630 Tue Mar 31 14:46:47 2009 *************** *** 1,4 **** ! # @(#)asia 8.26 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, --- 1,4 ---- ! # @(#)asia 8.27 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, *************** *** 1695,1700 **** --- 1695,1716 ---- # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html # </a> + # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-26): + # According to the Palestine News Network (arabic.pnn.ps), Palestinian + # government decided to start Daylight Time on Thursday night March + # 26 and continue until the night of 27 September 2009. + # + # (in Arabic) + # <a href="http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50850"> + # http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50850 + # </a> + # + # or + # (English translation) + # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank01.html"> + # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank01.html + # </a> + # 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 *************** *** 1708,1717 **** Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2005 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - ! Rule Palestine 2006 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2007 only - Sep Thu>=8 2:00 0 - ! Rule Palestine 2008 max - Aug lastThu 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct --- 1724,1735 ---- Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2005 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - ! Rule Palestine 2006 2008 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2007 only - Sep Thu>=8 2:00 0 - ! Rule Palestine 2008 only - Aug lastThu 2:00 0 - ! Rule Palestine 2009 max - Mar lastThu 0:00 1:00 S ! Rule Palestine 2009 max - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct ------- tz-link.htm ------- *** /tmp/geta25650 Tue Mar 31 14:46:58 2009 --- /tmp/getb25650 Tue Mar 31 14:46:58 2009 *************** *** 18,24 **** <body> <h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1> <address> ! @(#)tz-link.htm 8.17 </address> <p> Please send corrections to this web page to the --- 18,24 ---- <body> <h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1> <address> ! @(#)tz-link.htm 8.18 </address> <p> Please send corrections to this web page to the *************** *** 218,224 **** <code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles <code>tz</code> source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> ! <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz">PyTZ - Python Time Zone Library</a> compiles <code>tz</code> source into <a href="http://python.org/">Python</a>. It is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> --- 218,224 ---- <code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles <code>tz</code> source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> ! <li><a href="http://pytz.sourceforge.net">PyTZ - Python Time Zone Library</a> compiles <code>tz</code> source into <a href="http://python.org/">Python</a>. It is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-26): # According to the Palestine News Network (arabic.pnn.ps), Palestinian # government decided to start Daylight Time on Thursday night March # 26 and continue until the night of 27 September 2009. # ... ! Rule Palestine 2009 max - Mar lastThu 0:00 1:00 S ! Rule Palestine 2009 max - Sep lastSun 2:00 0
Arthur David Olson wrote: - I read the translation as meaning 24:00 o'clock on both dates (midnight for that day). Thus it should be Last *Friday* of March and Last *Monday* of September? Like this: ! Rule Palestine 2009 max - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S ! Rule Palestine 2009 max - Sep lastMon 2:00 0 - Regards, Jesper Nørgaard Welen No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.557 / Virus Database: 270.11.30/2025 - Release Date: 2009-03-26 20:05
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