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diff --git a/timezone/asia b/timezone/asia index 6d9f517..7ef2d0c 100644 --- a/timezone/asia +++ b/timezone/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.55 +# @(#)asia 7.56 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to @@ -370,9 +370,9 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 9:00 - JAYT # Iran -# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales: +# From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales: # Ahmea Alavi in -# <a href="http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt"> +# <a href="http://www.persia.org/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt"> # TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12) # </a> # writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day @@ -385,12 +385,13 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov # 1993 03-21 03-21 09-23 09-23 # 1994 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 # 1995 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 -# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22 -# 1997 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23 +# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-22 09-22 +# 1997 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 # 1998 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23 # 1999 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 # 2000 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22 -# 2001 03-17!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23 +# 2001 03-19!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23 +# 2002 03-18!= 03-21 09-18!= 09-23 # # Go with Alavi starting with 1992. # I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates. @@ -455,7 +456,23 @@ Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979 3:30 Iran IR%sT + # Iraq +# +# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12): +# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in +# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: +# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and +# are an hour ahead of Baghdad." +# +# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows: +# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi +# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred +# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone +# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. +# +# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S @@ -526,7 +543,7 @@ Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> -# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, and 2000-01-17): +# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. @@ -537,14 +554,19 @@ Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard # time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard # time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid -# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. Starting in 1999, the change to -# daylight savings time will still be on a Friday morning but from +# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to +# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from # 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time -# will now also be on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for -# 1999 only. In the years from 2000 to 2002, the change back will be from -# 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST the morning after the Jewish festival of -# Shmini Atzeret (i.e. the morning of the 23rd of Tishrei in the lunar -# Hebrew calendar). +# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for +# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was +# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it +# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all +# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no +# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date +# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve +# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date +# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] +# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar). # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D @@ -592,29 +614,37 @@ Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S -# Minister of Interior, Natan Sharansky, has announced the dates for -# the years 2000-2002. However, sources inside the ministry have noted -# that the end date of 2000 and both dates of 2001-2002 should be regarded -# as tentative pending final approval. +# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for +# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the +# years 2001-2004 as well. +# +# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: +# +# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz # -# The official announcement for the years 2000-2002 can be viewed at: +# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates +# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2002.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 22 2:00 0 S -Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 6 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 2001 only - Oct 10 2:00 0 S -Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 2002 only - Sep 29 2:00 0 S - -# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-17): -# Here are guesses for rules after 2002. +Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S + +# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25): +# Here are guesses for rules after 2004. # They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Zion 2003 max - Mar Fri>=25 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 2003 max - Oct 1 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 |