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<div dir="ltr">Hi, Paul,</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you for accepting my suggestions. I had mentioned the news article about the election to confirm that the provinces using UTC+7 were only Bayan-Ölgii, Khovd and Uvs, but not Govi-Altai and Zavkhan. But you're right, this article doesn't clarify the time zone of eastern Mongolia.<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Regards,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">David</div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 06:31:48 AM EDT, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Thanks for that analysis of our conflicting data about Mongolia. On <br clear="none">balance I'm inclined to agree with you that part of our 2008 change that <br clear="none">was at the time marked "this is almost surely wrong" is best reverted, <br clear="none">and installed the attached patch which incorporates your analysis and <br clear="none">takes your first proposed solution, which is simpler. I had one quibble, <br clear="none">though:<br clear="none"><div id="ydpd49402bfyiv4130260185ydp77895cd8yqtfd11383" class="ydpd49402bfyiv4130260185ydp77895cd8yqt4579926387"><br clear="none">On 6/24/24 00:03, Heitor David Pinto via tz wrote:<br clear="none">> It also matches a Mongolian news article about the election in 2017:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://mongolia.gogo.mn/r/806d6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mongolia.gogo.mn/r/806d6</a></div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none">That news article doesn't cast light on the matter, because when it was <br clear="none">written the polls would have been closed in the central and eastern <br clear="none">regions of Mongolia regardless of whether Mongolia had two time zones or <br clear="none">three. So I omitted that citation in the commentary of the attached <br clear="none">proposed patch, which I installed in the development repository.</div></div>
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