[tz] [PROPOSED] Today's North Korea change was at 23:30, not 24:00

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat May 5 06:18:29 UTC 2018


* NEWS, asia (Asia/Pyongyang): Implement this.
---
 NEWS | 5 +++++
 asia | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 90452b7..79d9d80 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ News for the tz database
 
 Unreleased, experimental changes
 
+  Changes to past time stamps
+
+    The 2018-05-05 North Korea 30-minute time zone change took place
+    at 23:30 the previous day, not at 00:00 that day.
+
   Changes to build procedure
 
     New 'make' target 'rearguard_tarballs' to build the rearguard
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 3d30864..2e829b8 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -1995,6 +1995,10 @@ Rule	ROK	1987	1988	-	Oct	Sun>=8	3:00	0	S
 # Assembly, as published in Rodong Sinmun.
 # From Tim Parenti (2018-04-29):
 # It appears to be the front page story at the top in the right-most column.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2018-05-04):
+# The BBC reported that the transition was from 23:30 to 24:00 today.
+# https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44010705
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Seoul	8:27:52	-	LMT	1908 Apr  1
@@ -2007,7 +2011,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Pyongyang	8:23:00 -	LMT	1908 Apr  1
 			8:30	-	KST	1912 Jan  1
 			9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug 24
 			9:00	-	KST	2015 Aug 15 00:00
-			8:30	-	KST	2018 May  5
+			8:30	-	KST	2018 May  4 23:30
 			9:00	-	KST
 
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