[tz] Palestine winter time
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Oct 22 07:59:55 UTC 2021
On 10/22/21 00:33, heba.hamad at mtit.gov.ps wrote:
> please confirm that tzdb release 2021e was officially approved and published
Yes, tzdb release 2021e was published yesterday, and you can now get a
copy from <https://www.iana.org/time-zones>. Although there is no
official authority for tzdb in the legal sense
(<https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#changes> says "The tz
code and data are by no means authoritative"), 2021e is published and I
expect that downstream redistributors like Apple and Google will pick it
up in due course.
Unfortunately this distribution process takes time. I expect that most
cell phones and other computing devices in Palestine will not be updated
before winter time begins next week, so they will display the incorrect
time for a day or more. To avoid similar problems in the future, it
would be helpful if the Palestinian government could give sufficient
notice of when daylight-saving changes will occur.
<https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#changes> recommends a
year's notice.
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