Dear Sir, Greeting from Ministry of telecom and information technology, Palestine We would like to inform you that the summer time will begin in Palestine from Sunday 03-27-2022 ,00:00 AM by 60 minutes forward. Kindly find the attachment below that includes the decision of the Palestinian cabinet. BR
heba.hamad@mtit.gov.ps via tz said:
We would like to inform you that the summer time will begin in Palestine from Su nday 03-27-2022 ,00:00 AM by 60 minutes forward.
Thank you for this. Could I please confirm that I've understood this correctly: 2022-03-26 23:59:59 Palestinian time (2022-03-26 21:59:59 UTC) will be followed by 2022-03-27 01:00 Palestinian Summer Time You need to be aware that, even if the co-ordinators are able to update the primary database in the next couple of days, it can take weeks or months for all devices to pick up the changes. Therefore we recommend that authorities such as yourselves give us at least a year's notice of changes. This is discussed further on this web page: https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/ Yours, Clive Feather (Please note that I have no authority within the IANA database; I am merely a contributor.) -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646
On 3/10/22 04:50, heba.hamad@mtit.gov.ps wrote:
We would like to inform you that the summer time will begin in Palestine from Sunday 03-27-2022 ,00:00 AM by 60 minutes forward.
Thanks, do you have a URL for that announcement? It sounds like Palestine is changing its spring-forward rules, so that Palestine will now spring forward at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after March 25, whereas during 2020 and 2021 Palestine sprang forward at 00:00 on the first Saturday after March 24. Is my understanding correct? Knowing the transition rule would be helpful, because TZDB makes predictions about future years, some computer applications rely on this (perhaps unwisely, but that's what they do), and the more accurate the predictions the better off everybody will be. This is related to Clive Feather's point that we need plenty of advance notice of rule changes (we'd like a year's notice). Without knowing the answers to the above questions, I installed the attached proposed patch into the TZDB development version. If possible, I'd like to improve this (based on answers to the above questions) before the next TZDB release, which should happen soon.
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Clive D.W. Feather -
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Paul Eggert