From 59467e3373a2f90aae3a3c9684ab527855922427 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 06:02:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Improve Palestine predictions for 2025 and later * NEWS: Mention this. * asia (Palestine): Guess Fri>=23, not lastFri, for fallback transitions in the future. Fri>=23 is more consistent with past practice than lastFri. The first differing prediction is a fallback on 2025-10-24, not 2025-10-31. --- NEWS | 10 ++++++++++ asia | 2 +- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a7aa269e8..d83e01cc0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@ News for the tz database +Unreleased, experimental changes + + Changes to future timestamps + + Predict Palestine fallbacks to be the first Friday on or after + October 23, not October's last Friday, to be more consistent with + past practice. The first differing prediction is a fallback on + 2025-10-24, not 2025-10-31. + + Release 2021e - 2021-10-21 18:41:00 -0700 Changes to future timestamps diff --git a/asia b/asia index dd228e526..6d6b1de87 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -3445,7 +3445,7 @@ Rule Palestine 2019 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2019 only - Oct Sat>=24 0:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2020 max - Mar Sat>=24 0:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2020 only - Oct 24 1:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 2021 max - Oct lastFri 1:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2021 max - Oct Fri>=23 1:00 0 - # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct