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Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016h.
(Didn't I just do this? Oh well.) DST law changes in Palestine. Historical corrections for Turkey. Switch to numeric abbreviations for Asia/Colombo.
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‎src/timezone/data/asia

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

‎src/timezone/data/australasia

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# commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
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# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
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# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-01):
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# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04):
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx
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# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when
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# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will
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# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017."
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# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03):
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# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
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# 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches
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# transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future

‎src/timezone/data/europe

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# Amsterdam mean time.
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# The data entries before 1945 are taken from
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# http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm
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# http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm
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# From Amar Devegowda (2007-01-03):
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# The time zone rules for Istanbul, Turkey have not been changed for years now.
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# ... The latest rules are available at:
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# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-01-03):
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# I have been able to find press records back to 1996 which all say that
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# DST started 01:00 local time and end at 02:00 local time. I am not sure
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# what happened before that. One example for each year from 1996 to 2001:
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# http://newspot.byegm.gov.tr/arsiv/1996/21/N4.htm
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# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING97/03/97X03X25.TXT
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# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING98/03/98X03X02.HTM
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# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING99/10/99X10X26.HTM#%2016
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# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2000/03/00X03X06.HTM#%2021
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# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2001/03/23x03x01.HTM#%2027
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# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-03):
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# Prefer the above source to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1990.
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# From Kıvanç Yazan (2016-09-25):
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# 1) For 1986-2006, DST started at 01:00 local and ended at 02:00 local, with
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# no exceptions.
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# 2) 1994's lastSun was overridden with Mar 20 ...
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# Here are official papers:
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19032.pdf - page 2 for 1986
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19400.pdf - page 4 for 1987
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19752.pdf - page 15 for 1988
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20102.pdf - page 6 for 1989
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20464.pdf - page 1 for 1990 - 1992
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21531.pdf - page 15 for 1993 - 1995
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21879.pdf - page 1 for overriding 1994
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/22588.pdf - page 1 for 1996, 1997
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/23286.pdf - page 10 for 1998 - 2000
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2001/03/20010324.htm#2 - for 2001
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# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2002/03/20020316.htm#2 - for 2002-2006
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# Prefer the above sources to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1985.
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Rule Turkey 1985 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
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Rule Turkey 1986 1993 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S
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‎src/timezone/data/northamerica

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# managing editor of the Travelers' Guide, and secretary of the
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# to the General Time Convention on 1883-04-11, saying that his plan
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