[tz] Palestine Summer Time

[Hanna Kreitem]

yes, the arrow is apparently wrong, but the text is clear in the minutes
and news item, the change will happen at 1am.


On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:55 PM Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 09/03/16 09:40, Hanna Kreitem wrote:
> > Thank you, this means that the change will be at 1am, not midnight, this
> > is the difference.
>
> The clocks on the article are a little confusing since it does seem to
> show 2AM to 1AM ... which is obviously wrong :) Or ignoring the arrow,
> and reading from right to left then 1AM Jumps to 2AM and I think I would
> read "as of one o'clock" to mean at one the clocks jump forward. But
> this is a fairly common problem with these announcements? They can be a
> little imprecise as to when the event happens ....
>
> > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016, 11:35 Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu
> > <mailto:eggert at cs.ucla.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hanna Kreitem wrote:
> >     > It was announced that Palestine will move to DST Saturday 26/3,
> >     this covers
> >     > the timezones of Hebron and Gaza.
> >     >
> >     > Source:http://www.24fm.ps/ar/news/1457438748
> >
> >     Thanks. The tz database already predicts that on Saturday,
> >     2016-03-26, at 00:00
> >     local time, Gaza and the West Bank will jump ahead by an hour.
> >     Google Translate
> >     converts the above web resource (which is in Arabic) to "... will be
> >     daylight
> >     saving in Palestine as of one o'clock on Saturday morning,
> >     03/26/2016, to
> >     provide the clock 60 minutes ahead". This matches tzdata if "as of
> >     one o'clock"
> >     refers to the time after the transition, not the time before. Does
> >     this sound
> >     good to you?
>
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