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Palestine ends DST on 2016-10-29 at 01:00
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(Thanks to Sharef Mustafa.)
* asia (Palestine): Update fall transitions for 2016 and beyond.
Predict future fall transitions on the last Saturday of October at
01:00, which is consistent with predicted spring transitions in March.
* NEWS: Document this.
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timparenti authored and eggert committed Oct 19, 2016
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Changes to past and future time stamps

Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron end DST on 2016-10-29 at 01:00, not
2016-10-21 at 00:00. (Thanks to Sharef Mustafa.) Predict that
future fall transitions will be on the last Saturday of October
at 01:00, which is consistent with predicted spring transitions
on the last Saturday of March. (Thanks to Tim Parenti.)

Changes to past time stamps

In Turkey, transitions in 1986-1990 were at 01:00 standard time
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#
# 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.
# ...
# http://www.pal24.net/news/90179.html
# http://palweather.ps/ar/node/31792.html
#
# 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.

# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
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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
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