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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear tzdata maintainers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I have found that after tzdata2020b release something has gone wrong with Asia/Gaza timezone, which is related to Palestine.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For checking I used this information <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/palestine/gaza">
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/palestine/gaza</a> and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for DST at 2019: <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/palestine/gaza?year=2019">
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/palestine/gaza?year=2019</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> for DST at 2020: <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/palestine/gaza?year=2020">
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/palestine/gaza?year=2020</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> for DST at 2021: <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/palestine/gaza?year=2021">
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/palestine/gaza?year=2021</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I compiled all last release of tzdata from 2019c to 2021a and was comparing them with Ubuntu packages for 2020b on groovy (20.10) and 2021a on bionic (18.04).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If several changes in the date of DST for different years can be related with last applied laws of DST in Palestine (described here
<span lang="RU" style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-October/029376.html"><span lang="EN-US">http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-October/029376.html</span></a></span>), but broken timezone output in letters or numbers is speaking
about any error in the this time zone code.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Can you investigate this too ? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On screenshot you can see all my investigation:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="888" height="793" style="width:9.25in;height:8.2604in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01D70EDB.BE0D5350"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Also I share all commands and listing for your execution itself:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# ls -la /etc/localtime<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Mar 4 2021 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# ls -la /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Mar 27 01:00 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2019c<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2316 Oct 22 09:34 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2019c<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2316 Oct 30 2020 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1166 Oct 30 2020 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020b<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1166 Oct 30 2020 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020c<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1195 Oct 30 2020 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1213 Mar 1 2021 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2021a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2316 Oct 19 2020 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.ubuntu.2020b<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2459 Jan 27 2021 /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.ubuntu.2021a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# date +"%Y%m%d %T" -s "20190328 23:59:55" ; sleep 4; date +%c%t%z%t%Z; sleep 2 ; date +%c%t%z%t%Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">20190328 23:59:55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Thu Mar 28 23:59:59 2019 +0200 EET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Fri Mar 29 01:00:01 2019 +0300 EEST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020a /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">'/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza' -> '/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020a'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# date +"%Y%m%d %T" -s "20200326 23:59:55" ; sleep 4; date +%c%t%z%t%Z; sleep 2 ; date +%c%t%z%t%Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">20200326 23:59:55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Thu Mar 26 23:59:59 2020 +0200 EET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Fri Mar 27 01:00:01 2020 +0300 EEST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020b /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">'/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza' -> '/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020b'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# date +"%Y%m%d %T" -s "20200326 23:59:55" ; sleep 4; date +%c%t%z%t%Z; sleep 2 ; date +%c%t%z%t%Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">20200326 23:59:55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Thu Mar 26 23:59:59 2020 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Fri Mar 27 00:00:01 2020 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020c /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">'/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza' -> '/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2020c'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# date +"%Y%m%d %T" -s "20200326 23:59:55" ; sleep 4; date +%c%t%z%t%Z; sleep 2 ; date +%c%t%z%t%Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">20200326 23:59:55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Thu Mar 26 23:59:59 2020 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Fri Mar 27 00:00:01 2020 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.ubuntu.2020b /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">'/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza' -> '/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.ubuntu.2020b'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# date +"%Y%m%d %T" -s "20200326 23:59:55" ; sleep 4; date +%c%t%z%t%Z; sleep 2 ; date +%c%t%z%t%Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">20200326 23:59:55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Thu Mar 26 23:59:59 2020 +0200 EET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Fri Mar 27 01:00:01 2020 +0300 EEST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2021a /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">'/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza' -> '/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.2021a'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# date +"%Y%m%d %T" -s "20210326 23:59:55" ; sleep 4; date +%c%t%z%t%Z; sleep 2 ; date +%c%t%z%t%Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">20210326 23:59:55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Fri Mar 26 23:59:59 2021 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Sat Mar 27 00:00:01 2021 +0000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# ln -sfv /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.ubuntu.2021a /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">'/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza' -> '/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Asia/Gaza.ubuntu.2021a'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">[root@Router8:~]# date +"%Y%m%d %T" -s "20210326 23:59:55" ; sleep 4; date +%c%t%z%t%Z; sleep 2 ; date +%c%t%z%t%Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">20210326 23:59:55<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Fri Mar 26 23:59:59 2021 +0200 EET<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas">Sat Mar 27 01:00:01 2021 +0300 EEST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:RU">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:RU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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