[tz] [PROPOSED] Fix EEST typos in Palestine before 1948

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Nov 3 18:25:24 UTC 2016


* NEWS: Document this.
* asia (Asia/Gaza, Asia/Hebron): Fix typos, to use "EEST" instead
of "EET" when abbreviating summer time before 1948.
---
 NEWS | 8 ++++++++
 asia | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index da5c2a5..db9f03d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 News for the tz database
 
+Unreleased, experimental changes
+
+  Changes to past time zone abbreviations
+
+    Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron now use "EEST", not "EET", to denote
+    summer time before 1948.  The old use of "EET" was a typo.
+
+
 Release 2016i - 2016-11-01 23:19:52 -0700
 
   Briefly: Cyprus split into two time zones on 2016-10-30, and Tonga
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 67164b3..bb7534a 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -2616,7 +2616,7 @@ Rule Palestine	2016	max	-	Oct	lastSat	1:00	0	-
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Gaza	2:17:52	-	LMT	1900 Oct
-			2:00	Zion	EET	1948 May 15
+			2:00	Zion	EET/EEST 1948 May 15
 			2:00 EgyptAsia	EE%sT	1967 Jun  5
 			2:00	Zion	I%sT	1996
 			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT	1999
@@ -2629,7 +2629,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Gaza	2:17:52	-	LMT	1900 Oct
 			2:00 Palestine	EE%sT
 
 Zone	Asia/Hebron	2:20:23	-	LMT	1900 Oct
-			2:00	Zion	EET	1948 May 15
+			2:00	Zion	EET/EEST 1948 May 15
 			2:00 EgyptAsia	EE%sT	1967 Jun  5
 			2:00	Zion	I%sT	1996
 			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT	1999
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