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<DIV><SPAN class=342341016-07112007><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000 size=2>That
is correct; calculating dates by the Persian calendar requires astronomical
computations. (Israel also uses its native calendar in establishing DST dates,
IIRC, but the Jewish calendar is computable with simple
math.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=342341016-07112007><FONT face=Georgia color=#008000
size=2>Unless/until it can be assumed that computers have the capacity to
compute these calendars, we probably have to just extend out a schedule of
dates, but with enough data in comments that coders working with systems that do
have that capacity can substitute a proper computation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Paul Schauble
[mailto:Paul.Schauble@ticketmaster.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 7 November 2007
09:06<BR><B>To:</B> tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Iran's exact
law for re-instating daylight saving<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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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><BR>I'm sure I will be corrected if need be.<BR><BR>
++PLS<BR><BR><BR><BR>----- 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><BR>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><BR>It's the midnight
at the end of the day.<BR><BR>> Just to double check, are the current
transitions OK?<BR><BR>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><BR>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><BR>Roozbeh<BR><BR><BR></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>