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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I think there. Is an additional complication here. I believe the Persian calendar begins on the day of the true equinox. This varies over about a 2 day period so there is not a fixed correspondence between Persiam dates and Gregorian.<BR>
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I'm sure I will be corrected if need be.<BR>
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++PLS<BR>
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----- Original Message -----<BR>
From: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@farsiweb.info><BR>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU><BR>
Cc: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov <tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov><BR>
Sent: Wed Nov 07 05:09:15 2007<BR>
Subject: Re: Iran's exact law for re-instating daylight saving<BR>
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On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 00:27 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:<BR>
> Thanks for the citation. That "24 hours" worries me a bit; it's not<BR>
> clear to me whether it means midnight at the start or at the end of<BR>
> the day.<BR>
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It's the midnight at the end of the day.<BR>
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> Just to double check, are the current transitions OK?<BR>
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Yes. The law is basically reinstating the 1991 regulation of President<BR>
Rafsanjani's board of ministers which was canceled by President<BR>
Ahmadinejad's board of ministers a few days before daylight saving was<BR>
supposed to come into effect again in 2006.<BR>
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BTW, the funny thing is that Hassan Habibi, the First Vice President<BR>
that signed the 1991 regulation, and Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel, the<BR>
Parliament's Speaker who signed the 2007 one, have been the only two<BR>
presidents of Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature since<BR>
its revival in 1990. Habibi became the Academy's President when it was<BR>
recreated (while also serving as First Vice President) and was replaced<BR>
by Haddad-Adel after his term finished. But later, Haddad-Adel resigned<BR>
from the post when he became the Parliament's Speaker, leading in Habibi<BR>
filling his original position again.<BR>
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Roozbeh<BR>
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