[tz] Wrong day light savings (DST) in Syria

[Deborah Goldsmith]

Apple distributes updates to the TZ database over the air. An update was released for this change on October 18. If your time zone is set to Damascus, or you have Damascus in World Clock, you should have gotten an alert.

If not, you can see if a TZ database update is waiting by going to Settings> General> Date & Time. If so, rebooting will activate the update.

My iPhone and Mac currently show the time in Damascus as UTC+3.

Debbie Goldsmith

> On Oct 28, 2022, at 8:23 AM, Tim Parenti via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 11:10, MAHMAOD RADWAN via tz <tz at iana.org <mailto:tz at iana.org>> wrote:
>> Right now in Syria government made a decision to cancel day light saving (DST) in Syria but for some reason smartphones (android and ios) devices reserve a change to it clock so the clock in the all smartphones are now late for an hour so I hope to fix this mistake and reasove the issue 
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> We first received notice of this change for Syria on 5 October 2022 and published it in version 2022e of our data on 11 October 2022.
> https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/59aa97e8e9e3744a06cb004946a104824a5234c2
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> This was about two weeks before the change took effect about 18 hours ago, which is not a lot of time.
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> Data updates take some time to propagate via telecommunications and vendor support down to people's cell phones and computers.  So it is unfortunately not surprising, given the short notice, that many devices haven't been updated before today's change went into effect and are now off by an hour.  Once we've published updated data, it is up to these downstream providers to apply it in a timely fashion.  For more on this topic, please see:
> https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#changes
> https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/
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> Tim Parenti

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