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