Gaza/West Bank likely to end DST 1 hour earlier
The Gaza and West Bank are ending DST Thursday at midnight (2013-09-27 00:00:00) (one hour earlier than last year and current rule in tzdata). This source in English, says "that winter time will go into effect at midnight on Thursday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip": http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23246 and also mentions it here: http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23254 The official source and this other source in Arabic, with Google Translate translates to "Friday night", we assume this English source was based on this government source, and that midnight between Thursday and Friday is correct: http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/ar/Views/ViewDetails.aspx?pid=1252 http://felesteen.ps/details/news/100581/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A... Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com
Thanks, here's a proposed patch for that, which I've pushed to the experimental version. As this affects some time stamps later this week, we'll need a new tz release soon.
From e28afbbac3bb07c10bf1fa66e3c77fe9844a8cb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:02:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * asia (Palestine): Autumn transition is now at 00:00, not 01:00.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) * NEWS: Document this. --- NEWS | 2 ++ asia | 16 +++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ba788e9..c1e8ba3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Jordan will likely stay at UTC+3 indefinitely, and will not fall back this fall. + Palestine will fall back at 00:00, not 01:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) + Changes affecting the build procedure Avoid long strings in leapseconds.awk to work around a mawk bug. diff --git a/asia b/asia index d75dd0b..580a179 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -2299,9 +2299,18 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=154120 # http://safa.ps/details/news/99844/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%8... -# From Paul Eggert (2013-04-15): +# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-24): +# The Gaza and West Bank are ending DST Thursday at midnight +# (2013-09-27 00:00:00) (one hour earlier than last year...). +# This source in English, says "that winter time will go into effect +# at midnight on Thursday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip": +# http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23246 +# official source...: +# http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/ar/Views/ViewDetails.aspx?pid=1252 + +# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-24): # For future dates, guess the last Thursday in March at 24:00 through -# the first Friday on or after September 21 at 01:00. This is consistent with +# the first Friday on or after September 21 at 00:00. This is consistent with # the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs, # which are for Gaza and Hebron respectively: # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=702 @@ -2332,7 +2341,8 @@ Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 30 0:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2011 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2012 max - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S -Rule Palestine 2012 max - Sep Fri>=21 1:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2012 only - Sep 21 1:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2013 max - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct -- 1.8.3.1
Forwarding a followup on the Gaza change with Roozbeh Pournader, Roozbeh, Here's the information that the tz database people have regarding the upcoming time change in Gaza. I was just curious if the original Arabic notice implied a specific time. The previous data had the transition occurring at 1:00 AM. The public tz database project has already updated this year's change to be at midnight, based on the reports linked here. -- Andy [ snip of quoted message from the tz list ] Roozbeh Pournader 3:17 PM (12 minutes ago) to me Andy, I can confirm that the Arabic text itself doesn't mention either midnight or 1am. Interestingly, there were links from the felesteen.ps article to time change articles last year, and those are contradictory about midnight vs 1am: This says midnight: http://felesteen.ps/details/news/78832/%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1... While this says 1am: http://felesteen.ps/details/news/78745/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9...
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