Steffen Thorsen <straen@thorsen.priv.no> writes:

Daylight Saving Time ended Friday for "Rule Palestine"

Thanks for the heads-up. Here is a proposed patch, which incorporates the Palestine change along with the other changes already proposed to this list recently. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/africa,v retrieving revision 2006.12 retrieving revision 2006.12.0.1 diff -pu -r2006.12 -r2006.12.0.1 --- africa 2006/09/18 16:58:11 2006.12 +++ africa 2006/09/20 19:35:29 2006.12.0.1 @@ -212,35 +212,13 @@ Rule Egypt 1990 1994 - May 1 1:00 1:00 # Go with IATA starting in 1995, except correct 1995 entry from 09-30 to 09-29. Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Egypt 1995 2005 - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - -# From Hammad Hassan (2006-09-13), quoting The Egyptian Gazette (2006-09-10), -# issue no. 41,083, page 1, column 1: -# Egypt will switch back to the winter time on the eve of the first day of -# the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, expected to start this year on Sept. 24.... -# "Clocks will be turned back starting from the night on which Darul Ifta ... -# announces sighting the crescent of the month of Ramadan,..." Magdi Radi, -# the Cabinet spokesman, said yesterday. -# From Hammad Hassan (2006-09-17): -# when we reach 1:00AM at Sep 25 the clocks will be turned back to 12:00AM. -# I think also this change will be this year and may be the next couple of -# years only. (They just want to exclude Ramadan from the summer time; if -# so, the change will be among 3 years only if my calculations are correct). -# From Paul Eggert (2006-09-17): -# For now, assume a similar rule will be followed in 2006/2008, and that -# Ramadan will start as predicted by GNU Emacs 21.4. Here's the code used -# to generate the 2006/2008 lines: -# (let ((year 1427)) -# (while (< year (+ 1427 3)) -# (let ((date (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute -# (calendar-absolute-from-islamic (list 9 2 year))))) -# (insert (format "Rule\tEgypt\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 1:00\t0\t-\n" -# (extract-calendar-year date) -# (calendar-month-name (extract-calendar-month date) 3) -# (extract-calendar-day date)))) -# (setq year (1+ year))))) -Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 25 1:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep 14 1:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2008 only - Sep 3 1:00 0 - -Rule Egypt 2009 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-19): +# The Egyptian Gazette, issue 41,090 (2006-09-18), page 1, reports: +# Egypt will turn back clocks by one hour at the midnight of Thursday +# after observing the daylight saving time since May. +# http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf +Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 21 23:00s 0 - +Rule Egypt 2007 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/asia,v retrieving revision 2006.11 retrieving revision 2006.11.0.3 diff -pu -r2006.11 -r2006.11.0.3 --- asia 2006/08/28 16:18:48 2006.11 +++ asia 2006/09/26 17:55:21 2006.11.0.3 @@ -1476,6 +1476,15 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as # the West Bank. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-26): +# according to the Palestine News Network (2006-09-19): +# http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=596&Itemid=5 +# > The Council of Ministers announced that this year its winter schedule +# > will begin early, as of midnight Thursday. It is also time to turn +# > back the clocks for winter. Friday will begin an hour late this week. +# I guess it is likely that next year's date will be moved as well, +# because of the Ramadan. + # 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 @@ -1488,8 +1497,10 @@ Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 Rule Palestine 1999 2005 - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S 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 2:00 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 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct @@ -1668,11 +1679,18 @@ Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - # IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02; # (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02, # 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31; -# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# (2006) says 2006-03-31 and 2006-09-22; +# for now ignore all these claims and go with Shanks & Pottenger, +# except for the 2006-09-22 claim (which seems right for Ramadan). Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Syria 1994 2005 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18): +# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC] +# this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt. +Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - +Rule Syria 2007 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq 2:00 Syria EE%sT =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v retrieving revision 2006.3 retrieving revision 2006.3.0.2 diff -pu -r2006.3 -r2006.3.0.2 --- southamerica 2006/04/03 14:07:15 2006.3 +++ southamerica 2006/09/20 19:35:02 2006.3.0.2 @@ -1064,6 +1064,10 @@ Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Mar 27 2:00 0 # 02:00 local time, official time in Uruguay will be at GMT -2. Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 2006 only - Mar 12 2:00 0 - +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-09-06): +# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2006/09/CM%20210_08%2006%202006_... +Rule Uruguay 2006 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Uruguay 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28 -3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT