[tz] Wrong entry for Israel tz information
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Mar 8 05:38:52 UTC 2014
Thanks for the heads-up. I've applied the attached patch to the
experimental version on github.
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:37:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Israel DST transitions were off by a day in 1988.
(Thanks to Avigdor Finkelstein.)
* asia (Zion): Add 1 to the 1988 transition dates.
* NEWS: Document this.
---
NEWS | 5 ++++-
asia | 9 +++++++--
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 004c210..62d2a9b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,11 +8,14 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
Turkey begins DST on 2014-03-31, not 03-30. (Thanks to Faruk Pasin for
the heads-up, and to Tim Parenti for simplifying the update.)
- Changes affecting recent time stamps
+ Changes affecting past time stamps
Fiji ended DST on 2014-01-19 at 02:00, not the previously-scheduled 03:00.
(Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
+ In 1988 Israel observed DST from 04-10 to 09-04, not 04-09 to 09-03.
+ (Thanks to Avigdor Finkelstein.)
+
Changes affecting code
A uninitialized-storage bug in 'localtime' has been fixed.
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 2867e64..3bd7e7d 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -1090,8 +1090,13 @@ Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S
Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
+
+# From Avigdor Finkelstein (2014-03-05):
+# I check the Parliament (Knesset) records and there it's stated that the
+# [1988] transition should take place on Saturday night, when the Sabbath
+# ends and changes to Sunday.
+Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S
# From Ephraim Silverberg
# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22,
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