proposed tz data changes for Syria, Uruguay
Oscar van Vlijmen
ovv at hetnet.nl
Tue Sep 19 13:56:25 UTC 2006
> From: Paul Eggert
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:06:41 -0700
> Subject: proposed tz data changes for Syria, Uruguay
> RCS file: RCS/asia,v
> retrieving revision 2006.11
> retrieving revision 2006.11.0.1
> diff -pu -r2006.11 -r2006.11.0.1
> --- asia 2006/08/28 16:18:48 2006.11
> +++ asia 2006/09/18 18:57:32 2006.11.0.1
> @@ -1670,9 +1670,14 @@ Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00
0 -
> # 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31;
> # ignore all these claims and go with Shanks & Pottenger.
> Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
> -Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
> +Rule Syria 1994 2005 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
> Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S
> Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
> +# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18):
> +# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September this
> +# year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt.
> +Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
> +Rule Syria 2007 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
> # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
> Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq
> 2:00 Syria EE%sT
>From Stephen Colebourne
> Subject: FW: Syrian TZ change
> According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September this
> year:
>
> Standard time +2 hours
> DST time +3 hours
> Change from standard to DST:
> 2006-03-30T22:00
> 2007-03-31T22:00
> 2008-03-31T22:00
> Change from DST to standard:
> 2006-09-21T21:00
> 2007-09-30T21:00
> 2008-09-30T21:00
My question is:
Are you shure that
> Change from DST to standard:
> 2006-09-21T21:00
has to be interpreted as:
> +Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
Probably Sep 22 0:00h ?
If you follow the IATA, then you may also want to have a look at the
starting date in 2006: Mar 31 0:00, not Apr 1.
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