Thanks for the heads-up. Here's a proposed patch, which is the second amendment to my Thursday proposal. This patch also corrects a misspelling of Roozbeh Pournader's name. If you'd like a merged patch consisting of all the recent proposed changes, I can easily generate one. --- asia 2003/03/16 05:17:32 2002.4.0.2 +++ asia 2003/03/17 04:26:00 2002.4.0.4 @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 No # here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-15) -# Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pourander thereafter. +# Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. # I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates. # The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050 # are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. @@ -1167,9 +1167,22 @@ Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920 # DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05 # that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow for now. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14): +# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm +# there will be no DST in Pakistan this year: +# +# ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh +# Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous # +decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by # +one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy. # +# The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather +# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity. + + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S -Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - +Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S +Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep