Golan Heights and Quneitra
The Golan Heights are not represented by a zone in TZ. Since 1967 under control of Israel, they fall under Asia/Jerusalem, as all differences fall under the 1970 TZ cut-off. Having a zone in backzone would be good, though. There is however one town in the Golan Heights, Quneitra, which was returned from Isreal to Syria in 1974. There have been timezone differences in the years 1967 - 1974 between Israel and Syria. Therefore, Asia/Quneitra would merit its own zone, in my opinion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quneitra list a population of 153 for the (destroyed) town itself and 4318 for is 'metropolitan' area.
Alois Treindl wrote:
There have been timezone differences in the years 1967 - 1974 between Israel and Syria. Therefore, Asia/Quneitra would merit its own zone
I'm afraid that one is a bit beyond our powers. Due to the wars at the time, Quneitra was largely deserted during the 1970-1974 period that would otherwise qualify it as a tzdb entry. It would be impractical for us to obtain reliable evidence of civil (as opposed to military or paramilitary) timekeeping there during the period, even assuming there was civil timekeeping at all. I'd rather let this sleeping dog lie.
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Paul Eggert