[tz] [PROPOSED] Improve Palestine predictions for 2025 and later
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sun Oct 24 13:03:52 UTC 2021
* NEWS: Mention this.
* asia (Palestine): Guess Fri>=23, not lastFri, for fallback
transitions in the future. Fri>=23 is more consistent with past
practice than lastFri. The first differing prediction is a
fallback on 2025-10-24, not 2025-10-31.
---
NEWS | 10 ++++++++++
asia | 2 +-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a7aa269..d83e01c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
News for the tz database
+Unreleased, experimental changes
+
+ Changes to future timestamps
+
+ Predict Palestine fallbacks to be the first Friday on or after
+ October 23, not October's last Friday, to be more consistent with
+ past practice. The first differing prediction is a fallback on
+ 2025-10-24, not 2025-10-31.
+
+
Release 2021e - 2021-10-21 18:41:00 -0700
Changes to future timestamps
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index dd228e5..6d6b1de 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -3445,7 +3445,7 @@ Rule Palestine 2019 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Palestine 2019 only - Oct Sat>=24 0:00 0 -
Rule Palestine 2020 max - Mar Sat>=24 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Palestine 2020 only - Oct 24 1:00 0 -
-Rule Palestine 2021 max - Oct lastFri 1:00 0 -
+Rule Palestine 2021 max - Oct Fri>=23 1:00 0 -
# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
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