<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Paul,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your time on following up coping with the whole mess, as I can see on git you just commented out the rule for the Decision made on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/0e0b0eb3e5b3c046971ff69aae1ca69c1450f5b4"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/0e0b0eb3e5b3c046971ff69aae1ca69c1450f5b4" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E9E9EB;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:150px;" width="300" height="150" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="0e0b0eb3e5b3c046971ff69aae1ca69c1450f5b4.png" src="cid:0D5BBC8A-593C-48E9-B228-115DBFDFE640"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E9E9EB" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(233, 233, 235, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/0e0b0eb3e5b3c046971ff69aae1ca69c1450f5b4" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#000000" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);">Revert 2023b’s data changes · eggert/tz@0e0b0eb</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/0e0b0eb3e5b3c046971ff69aae1ca69c1450f5b4" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color: rgba(60, 60, 67, 0.6);">github.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><div><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,</div><div>Saad</div><div>Ext. 2229</div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 24 Mar 2023, at 12:43 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On 3/23/23 13:22, Saadallah Itani wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I hope Linux Vendors pull the new tzdb changes soon.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>We first have to publish tzdb 2023b with the patch for Lebanon <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmm.icann.org%2Fpipermail%2Ftz%2Fattachments%2F20230323%2Fb810bf1a%2F0001-Lebanon-springs-forward-later-this-year.patch&data=05%7C01%7Csitani%40aub.edu.lb%7C1e7473d2ac0649eabbad08db2bf004c9%7Cc7ba5b1a41b643e9a1206ff654ada137%7C1%7C0%7C638152082098334350%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Gv9OpWTw6e8IkZyIsIQ9RhntmvA8guMBYn0XL%2Brl1ZQ%3D&reserved=0>, which I hope to do quite soon.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Unfortunately, many GNU/Linux and other downstream suppliers take some time (a week or more) to test changes before they release data to their users. So unless you're using one of the smaller, faster-moving distros like Alpine Linux you'll likely be out of luck.</span><br><span></span><br><span>People in Lebanon can work around the problem temporarily with an approximation like TZ='EET-2EEST,M4.3.5/0,M10.5.0/0' (this is good for predicted timestamps from April 15, 2022 up to but not including March 31, 2024). If your system doesn't support POSIX TZ strings (many cell phones are like this), you can instead use an approximation like TZ='Africa/Tripoli' (good for predicted timestamps from March 27, 2022 up to April 21 of this year).</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>