[tz] Gaza/West Bank likely to end DST 1 hour earlier

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks, here's a proposed patch for that, which I've
pushed to the experimental version.

As this affects some time stamps later this week,
we'll need a new tz release soon.

>From e28afbbac3bb07c10bf1fa66e3c77fe9844a8cb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:02:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * asia (Palestine): Autumn transition is now at 00:00, not
 01:00.

(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
* NEWS: Document this.
---
 NEWS |  2 ++
 asia | 16 +++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ba788e9..c1e8ba3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     Jordan will likely stay at UTC+3 indefinitely, and will not fall
     back this fall.
 
+    Palestine will fall back at 00:00, not 01:00.  (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
+
   Changes affecting the build procedure
 
     Avoid long strings in leapseconds.awk to work around a mawk bug.
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index d75dd0b..580a179 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -2299,9 +2299,18 @@ Zone    Asia/Karachi    4:28:12 -    LMT    1907
 # http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=154120
 # http://safa.ps/details/news/99844/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-29-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A.html
 
-# From Paul Eggert (2013-04-15):
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-24):
+# The Gaza and West Bank are ending DST Thursday at midnight
+# (2013-09-27 00:00:00) (one hour earlier than last year...).
+# This source in English, says "that winter time will go into effect
+# at midnight on Thursday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip":
+# http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23246
+# official source...:
+# http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/ar/Views/ViewDetails.aspx?pid=1252
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-24):
 # For future dates, guess the last Thursday in March at 24:00 through
-# the first Friday on or after September 21 at 01:00.  This is consistent with
+# the first Friday on or after September 21 at 00:00.  This is consistent with
 # the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs,
 # which are for Gaza and Hebron respectively:
 # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=702
@@ -2332,7 +2341,8 @@ Rule Palestine    2011    only    -    Aug     1    0:00    0    -
 Rule Palestine    2011    only    -    Aug    30    0:00    1:00    S
 Rule Palestine    2011    only    -    Sep    30    0:00    0    -
 Rule Palestine    2012    max    -    Mar    lastThu    24:00    1:00    S
-Rule Palestine    2012    max    -    Sep    Fri>=21    1:00    0    -
+Rule Palestine    2012    only    -    Sep    21    1:00    0    -
+Rule Palestine    2013    max    -    Sep    Fri>=21    0:00    0    -
 
 # Zone    NAME        GMTOFF    RULES    FORMAT    [UNTIL]
 Zone    Asia/Gaza    2:17:52    -    LMT    1900 Oct
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