DST ended early in Palestine (+ other accumulated changes)
Paul Eggert
eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Tue Sep 26 18:18:40 UTC 2006
Steffen Thorsen <straen at thorsen.priv.no> writes:
> Daylight Saving Time ended Friday for "Rule Palestine"
Thanks for the heads-up. Here is a proposed patch, which incorporates
the Palestine change along with the other changes already proposed to
this list recently.
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/africa,v
retrieving revision 2006.12
retrieving revision 2006.12.0.1
diff -pu -r2006.12 -r2006.12.0.1
--- africa 2006/09/18 16:58:11 2006.12
+++ africa 2006/09/20 19:35:29 2006.12.0.1
@@ -212,35 +212,13 @@ Rule Egypt 1990 1994 - May 1 1:00 1:00
# Go with IATA starting in 1995, except correct 1995 entry from 09-30 to 09-29.
Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S
Rule Egypt 1995 2005 - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 -
-# From Hammad Hassan (2006-09-13), quoting The Egyptian Gazette (2006-09-10),
-# issue no. 41,083, page 1, column 1:
-# Egypt will switch back to the winter time on the eve of the first day of
-# the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, expected to start this year on Sept. 24....
-# "Clocks will be turned back starting from the night on which Darul Ifta ...
-# announces sighting the crescent of the month of Ramadan,..." Magdi Radi,
-# the Cabinet spokesman, said yesterday.
-# From Hammad Hassan (2006-09-17):
-# when we reach 1:00AM at Sep 25 the clocks will be turned back to 12:00AM.
-# I think also this change will be this year and may be the next couple of
-# years only. (They just want to exclude Ramadan from the summer time; if
-# so, the change will be among 3 years only if my calculations are correct).
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-09-17):
-# For now, assume a similar rule will be followed in 2006/2008, and that
-# Ramadan will start as predicted by GNU Emacs 21.4. Here's the code used
-# to generate the 2006/2008 lines:
-# (let ((year 1427))
-# (while (< year (+ 1427 3))
-# (let ((date (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute
-# (calendar-absolute-from-islamic (list 9 2 year)))))
-# (insert (format "Rule\tEgypt\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t 1:00\t0\t-\n"
-# (extract-calendar-year date)
-# (calendar-month-name (extract-calendar-month date) 3)
-# (extract-calendar-day date))))
-# (setq year (1+ year)))))
-Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 25 1:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep 14 1:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2008 only - Sep 3 1:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2009 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 -
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-19):
+# The Egyptian Gazette, issue 41,090 (2006-09-18), page 1, reports:
+# Egypt will turn back clocks by one hour at the midnight of Thursday
+# after observing the daylight saving time since May.
+# http://news.gom.com.eg/gazette/pdf/2006/09/18/01.pdf
+Rule Egypt 2006 only - Sep 21 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Egypt 2007 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct
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RCS file: RCS/asia,v
retrieving revision 2006.11
retrieving revision 2006.11.0.3
diff -pu -r2006.11 -r2006.11.0.3
--- asia 2006/08/28 16:18:48 2006.11
+++ asia 2006/09/26 17:55:21 2006.11.0.3
@@ -1476,6 +1476,15 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
# Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as
# the West Bank.
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-26):
+# according to the Palestine News Network (2006-09-19):
+# http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=596&Itemid=5
+# > The Council of Ministers announced that this year its winter schedule
+# > will begin early, as of midnight Thursday. It is also time to turn
+# > back the clocks for winter. Friday will begin an hour late this week.
+# I guess it is likely that next year's date will be moved as well,
+# because of the Ramadan.
+
# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
@@ -1488,8 +1497,10 @@ Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0
Rule Palestine 1999 2005 - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 -
-Rule Palestine 2005 max - Oct 4 2:00 0 -
+Rule Palestine 2005 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 -
Rule Palestine 2006 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Palestine 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
+Rule Palestine 2007 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
@@ -1668,11 +1679,18 @@ Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
# 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.
+# (2006) says 2006-03-31 and 2006-09-22;
+# for now ignore all these claims and go with Shanks & Pottenger,
+# except for the 2006-09-22 claim (which seems right for Ramadan).
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 [21:00 UTC]
+# this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt.
+Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 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
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v
retrieving revision 2006.3
retrieving revision 2006.3.0.2
diff -pu -r2006.3 -r2006.3.0.2
--- southamerica 2006/04/03 14:07:15 2006.3
+++ southamerica 2006/09/20 19:35:02 2006.3.0.2
@@ -1064,6 +1064,10 @@ Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Mar 27 2:00 0
# 02:00 local time, official time in Uruguay will be at GMT -2.
Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Uruguay 2006 only - Mar 12 2:00 0 -
+# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-09-06):
+# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2006/09/CM%20210_08%2006%202006_00001.PDF
+Rule Uruguay 2006 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Uruguay 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28
-3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT
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