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@@ -2544,11 +2544,6 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03): # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014 # says that the fall 2014 transition was Oct 23 at 24:00. -# For future dates, guess the last Friday in March at 24:00 through -# the first Friday on or after October 21 at 00:00. This is consistent with -# the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs: -# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza -# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron # From Hannah Kreitem (2016-03-09): # http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/WebSite/ar/ViewDetails?ID=31728 @@ -2558,7 +2553,21 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # # From Paul Eggert (2016-03-12): # Predict spring transitions on March's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on. -# Leave fall predictions alone for now. + +# From Sharef Mustafa (2016-10-19): +# [T]he Palestinian cabinet decision (Mar 8th 2016) published on +# http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/WebSite/Upload/Decree/GOV_17/16032016134830.pdf +# states that summer time will end on Oct 29th at 01:00. +# +# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-19): +# Predict fall transitions on October's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on. +# This is consistent with the 2016 transition as well as our spring +# predictions. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-19): +# It's also consistent with predictions in the following URLs today: +# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza +# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S @@ -2587,9 +2596,10 @@ Rule Palestine 2011 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2012 2014 - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2012 only - Sep 21 1:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2013 only - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 2014 max - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2014 2015 - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2015 only - Mar lastFri 24:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2016 max - Mar lastSat 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Palestine 2016 max - Oct lastSat 1:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct @@ -2739,45 +2749,31 @@ Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 # People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'], # as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. -# From K Sethu (2006-04-25): -# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at -# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government -# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization -# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. -# -# I recollect before the recent change the government announcements -# mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka -# Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation. -# -# If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News -# Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they -# use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news -# item.... -# -# Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and -# administrators. In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the -# nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well -# known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are -# slt.lk and sltnet.lk). -# -# But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation -# (that we have not known so far) then it is better that it be used for -# all computers. - -# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): -# One possibility is that we wait for a bit for the dust to settle down -# and then see what people actually say in practice. +# From Sadika Sumanapala (2016-10-19): +# According to http://www.sltime.org (maintained by Measurement Units, +# Standards & Services Department, Sri Lanka) abbreviation for Sri Lanka +# standard time is SLST. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-18): +# "SLST" seems to be reasonably recent and rarely-used outside time +# zone nerd sources. I searched Google News and found three uses of +# it in the International Business Times of India in February and +# March of this year when discussing cricket match times, but nothing +# since then (though there has been a lot of cricket) and nothing in +# other English-language news sources. Our old abbreviation "LKT" is +# even worse. For now, let's use a numeric abbreviation; we can +# switch to "SLST" if it catches on. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time - 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5 - 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep - 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 - 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00 - 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30 - 6:00 - LKT 2006 Apr 15 0:30 - 5:30 - IST + 5:30 - +0530 1942 Jan 5 + 5:30 0:30 +0530/+06 1942 Sep + 5:30 1:00 +0530/+0630 1945 Oct 16 2:00 + 5:30 - +0530 1996 May 25 0:00 + 6:30 - +0630 1996 Oct 26 0:30 + 6:00 - +06 2006 Apr 15 0:30 + 5:30 - +0530 # Syria # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |