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

[MAHMAOD RADWAN]

Thank you for the information.

في الجمعة، 28 تشرين الأول 2022, 5:23 م Tim Parenti <tim at timtimeonline.com>
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> On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 at 11:10, MAHMAOD RADWAN via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>
> 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.
>
> 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/
>
> --
> Tim Parenti
>
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