[tz] Wrong entry for Israel tz information

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Mar 8 05:38:52 UTC 2014


Thanks for the heads-up.  I've applied the attached patch to the 
experimental version on github.
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:37:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Israel DST transitions were off by a day in 1988.

(Thanks to Avigdor Finkelstein.)
* asia (Zion): Add 1 to the 1988 transition dates.
* NEWS: Document this.
---
 NEWS | 5 ++++-
 asia | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 004c210..62d2a9b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,11 +8,14 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     Turkey begins DST on 2014-03-31, not 03-30.  (Thanks to Faruk Pasin for
     the heads-up, and to Tim Parenti for simplifying the update.)
 
-  Changes affecting recent time stamps
+  Changes affecting past time stamps
 
     Fiji ended DST on 2014-01-19 at 02:00, not the previously-scheduled 03:00.
     (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
 
+    In 1988 Israel observed DST from 04-10 to 09-04, not 04-09 to 09-03.
+    (Thanks to Avigdor Finkelstein.)
+
   Changes affecting code
 
     A uninitialized-storage bug in 'localtime' has been fixed.
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 2867e64..3bd7e7d 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -1090,8 +1090,13 @@ Rule	Zion	1986	only	-	May	18	0:00	1:00	D
 Rule	Zion	1986	only	-	Sep	 7	0:00	0	S
 Rule	Zion	1987	only	-	Apr	15	0:00	1:00	D
 Rule	Zion	1987	only	-	Sep	13	0:00	0	S
-Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Apr	 9	0:00	1:00	D
-Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
+
+# From Avigdor Finkelstein (2014-03-05):
+# I check the Parliament (Knesset) records and there it's stated that the
+# [1988] transition should take place on Saturday night, when the Sabbath
+# ends and changes to Sunday.
+Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Apr	10	0:00	1:00	D
+Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Sep	 4	0:00	0	S
 
 # From Ephraim Silverberg
 # (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22,
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