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Northern Cyprus to reintroduce winter time
* NEWS, asia (Asia/Famagusta): Switch back to +02/+03 with EU rules.
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Unreleased, experimental changes
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Briefly: Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21.
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Briefly:
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Northern Cyprus switches from +03 to +02/+03 on 2017-10-29.
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Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21.
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Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01.
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Sudan switches from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01.
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Turks & Caicos switches from -04 to -05/-04 on 2018-11-04.
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Northern Cyprus has decided to resume EU rules starting
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2017-10-29, thus reinstituting winter time.
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Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14 instead of the 2018-01-21 previously
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predicted. (Thanks to Dominic Fok.) Adjust future predictions
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# Looks like the time zone split in Cyprus went through last night.
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# http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/10/30/cyprus-new-division-two-time-zones-now-reality/
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# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18):
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# Northern Cyprus will reinstate winter time on October 29, thus
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# staying in sync with the rest of Cyprus. See: Anastasiou A.
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# Cyprus to remain united in time. Cyprus Mail 2017-10-17.
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# https://cyprus-mail.com/2017/10/17/cyprus-remain-united-time/
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# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S
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Zone Asia/Famagusta 2:15:48 - LMT 1921 Nov 14
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2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep
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2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 2016 Sep 8
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# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
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# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.

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