[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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