<div dir="ltr">Hello Jon,<div>Thanks for answering my query.</div><div>What I mean is that in the zone the %s is mentioned , does it not have a format like "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">2:00 - CAT</span>" . </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/namibia/windhoek">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/namibia/windhoek</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"># Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
1:30 - +0130 1903 Mar
2:00 - SAST 1942 Sep 20 2:00
2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00
2:00 - SAST 1990 Mar 21 # independence
# Vanguard section, for zic and other parsers that support negative DST.
2:00 Namibia %s ==> <b>2:00 - CAT</b></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Same case with <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/belize">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/belize</a></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 1</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> -6:00 Belize %s</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">%s pick from Rule but there is no Rule Save and Rule From as no DST Apply which lies in current date, as it is ended in 2017.</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Regard,</pre><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Vaibhav</pre></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 2:56 PM Jon Skeet <<a href="mailto:skeet@pobox.com">skeet@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 10:17, vaibhav shrivastava via tz <<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org" target="_blank">tz@iana.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Daylight Saving Time (DST) Not Observed in Year 2021<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Windhoek currently observes Central Africa Time (CAT)</div><div dir="auto"> all year.</div><div dir="auto">DST is no longer in use.</div><div dir="auto">Clocks do not change in Windhoek, Namibia.</div><div dir="auto">The previous DST change in Windhoek was on 24 October 2017</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you have documentation for the final change being on October 24th? The database has the change occurring on September 3rd 2017. If there's appropriate documentation showing that it actually changed on October 24th, it would be good to update the database accordingly.</div><div><br></div><div>But other than the precise date, what you've described is what the rules show as well. The 2017 part of the rules that Arthur Olsen included before means that those rules terminate in 2017.</div><div>From the final change in September 2017, Africa/Windhoek is on UTC+2, with abbreviation CAT.</div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://nodatime.org/tzvalidate/generate?zone=Africa/Windhoek" target="_blank">https://nodatime.org/tzvalidate/generate?zone=Africa/Windhoek</a> as an example of the transitions, noting that the final line is:</div><div><br></div><div>2017-09-03 01:00:00Z +02:00:00 standard CAT<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Why WAT is mentioned?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Because the time zone database covers the past as well as the future, and Africa/Windhoek <i>used</i> to alternate between CAT and WAT.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Why it is different from other rule and format?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which specific other rule and format? It's not clear to me what you mean, but I don't believe there's any problem here. </div><div><br></div><div>Jon</div><div><br></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Regards,<div>Vaibhav</div></div>