From d8655c6aecb67c8fe99bc078c6cb70c45aee8869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 17:35:27 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] * asia: Commentary corrections from Michael Deckers. --- asia | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/asia b/asia index 149f11f..10a7ef4 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -1418,13 +1418,12 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov # circles set their time to match Tehran time (three hours and half before # Greenwich).... # -# I still haven't found out when Tehran itself switched to +03:30 (let's -# assume some time earlier in 1935), but it is clear that standard time in -# Iran started on 1935-06-13 and not 1946. +# I still haven't found out when Tehran itself switched to +03:30.... # -# From Paul Eggert (2022-05-30): -# For now use the same date for Tehran as for elsewhere in Iran. -# This is most likely wrong, but we have no better info. +# From Paul Eggert (2022-06-05): +# Although the above says Tehran was at +03:30 before 1935-06-13, we don't +# know when it switched to +03:30. For now, use 1935-06-13 as the switch date. +# Although most likely wrong, we have no better info. # From Roozbeh Pournader (2022-06-01): # This is from Kayhan newspaper, one of the major Iranian newspapers, from @@ -1448,7 +1447,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov # done with, Iran didn't go back to +03:30, but immediately to +04:00. # # -# This is from the major Iranian newspaper Ettela'at, dated 1968-08-03, +# This is from the major Iranian newspaper Ettela'at, dated [1978-08-03]..., # page 32. It looks like they decided to get the clocks back to +4:00 # just in time for Ramadan that year: # -- 2.36.1