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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)asia 7.42
+# @(#)asia 7.48
# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
@@ -78,13 +78,14 @@ Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890
4:30 - AFT
# Armenia
-# From Paul Eggert (1998-??-??):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991,
# but usno1995 has Armenia at 4:00 (with DST), and Edgar Der-Danieliantz
# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
-# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
+# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. IATA SSIM (1999-02) reports
+# that they switch one day later in 2001 (i.e. on Mondays).
# What a mess! We guess Yerevan DST stayed in sync with Moscow between 1990
# and 1995, did not use DST in 1996, and started using DST again in 1997.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -365,10 +366,10 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
9:00 - JAYT
# Iran
-# From Paul Eggert (1996-12-17), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:
# Ahmea Alavi in
# <a href="http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt">
-# TAGHVEEM (1993-08-04)
+# TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12)
# </a>
# writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day
# of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM:
@@ -382,6 +383,10 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
# 1995 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22
# 1997 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23
+# 1998 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23
+# 1999 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
+# 2000 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22
+# 2001 03-17!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23
#
# Go with Alavi starting with 1992.
# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates.
@@ -648,10 +653,14 @@ Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u
# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
# Jordan
-# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-05-08):
-# Jordan do not have DST this year. It also seems that they are not going
-# to use it the next years either. "We do not need it" was the answer I got
-# from the Jordan National Information Centre (http://www.nic.gov.jo).
+#
+# From
+# <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
+# Jordan Week (1999-07-01)
+# </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
+# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight,
+# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time
+# all year round.
#
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S
@@ -676,7 +685,8 @@ Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
- 2:00 Jordan EE%sT
+ 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 Jul
+ 2:00 1:00 EEST
# Kazakhstan
# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
@@ -792,7 +802,8 @@ Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
@@ -934,7 +945,17 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule,
# the PA has decided to implement DST in April.
-# These rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
+# Daoud Kuttab writes in
+# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html">
+# Holiday havoc
+# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that
+# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15.
+# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source).
+# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
+# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
+
+# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
@@ -942,12 +963,17 @@ Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
+
+Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15
2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5
2:00 Zion I%sT 1996
- 2:00 Jordan EE%sT
+ 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999
+ 2:00 Palestine EE%sT
# Paracel Is
# no information
@@ -1053,7 +1079,8 @@ Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1997-03-31; (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
-# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; ignore all these claims for now.
+# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
+# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; ignore all these claims for now.
Rule Syria 1994 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]