[tz] Istanbul fix for 1986-2006
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sun Sep 25 08:48:24 UTC 2016
Thanks for the corrections, and for all that work in getting the government
sources. I am attaching a proposed patch to the tz data to incorporate these
fixes. I have installed this in the development repository on GitHub.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ebf942e..7976d41 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ News for the tz database
Unreleased, experimental changes
+ Changes to past time stamps
+
+ In Turkey, transitions in 1986-1990 were at 01:00 standard time
+ not at 02:00, and the spring 1994 transition was on March 20, not
+ March 27. (Thanks to Kıvanç Yazan.)
+
Changes to build procedure
New rules 'traditional_tarballs' and 'traditional_signatures' for
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 6020059..7458733 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -3427,22 +3427,24 @@ Zone Europe/Zurich 0:34:08 - LMT 1853 Jul 16 # See above comment.
# Turkey
-# From Amar Devegowda (2007-01-03):
-# The time zone rules for Istanbul, Turkey have not been changed for years now.
-# ... The latest rules are available at:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-01-03):
-# I have been able to find press records back to 1996 which all say that
-# DST started 01:00 local time and end at 02:00 local time. I am not sure
-# what happened before that. One example for each year from 1996 to 2001:
-# http://newspot.byegm.gov.tr/arsiv/1996/21/N4.htm
-# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING97/03/97X03X25.TXT
-# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING98/03/98X03X02.HTM
-# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING99/10/99X10X26.HTM#%2016
-# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2000/03/00X03X06.HTM#%2021
-# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2001/03/23x03x01.HTM#%2027
-# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-03):
-# Prefer the above source to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1990.
+# From Kıvanç Yazan (2016-09-25):
+# 1) For 1986-2006, DST started at 01:00 local and ended at 02:00 local, with
+# no exceptions.
+# 2) 1994's lastSun was overridden with Mar 20 ...
+# Here are official papers:
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19032.pdf - page 2 for 1986
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19400.pdf - page 4 for 1987
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19752.pdf - page 15 for 1988
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20102.pdf - page 6 for 1989
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20464.pdf - page 1 for 1990 - 1992
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21531.pdf - page 15 for 1993 - 1995
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21879.pdf - page 1 for overriding 1994
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/22588.pdf - page 1 for 1996, 1997
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/23286.pdf - page 10 for 1998 - 2000
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2001/03/20010324.htm#2 - for 2001
+# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2002/03/20020316.htm#2 - for 2002-2006
+# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-25):
+# Prefer the above sources to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1985.
# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-09):
# Starting 2007 though, it seems that they are adopting EU's 1:00 UTC
@@ -3551,10 +3553,10 @@ Rule Turkey 1983 only - Jul 31 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Turkey 1983 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
Rule Turkey 1985 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Turkey 1985 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
-Rule Turkey 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
-Rule Turkey 1986 1990 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
-Rule Turkey 1991 2006 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S
-Rule Turkey 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -
+Rule Turkey 1986 1993 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Turkey 1986 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -
+Rule Turkey 1994 only - Mar 20 1:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Turkey 1995 2006 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S
Rule Turkey 1996 2006 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880
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