diff --git a/tz/NEWS b/tz/NEWS index 9b235a2..b54538a 100644 --- a/tz/NEWS +++ b/tz/NEWS @@ -1,14 +1,19 @@ News for the tz database -Release 2023b - 2023-03-23 19:50:38 -0700 +Release 2023c - 2023-03-28 12:42:14 -0700 - Briefly: - Lebanon delays the start of DST this year. + Changes to past and future timestamps + + Model Lebanon's DST chaos by reverting data to tzdb 2023a. + (Thanks to Rany Hany for the heads-up.) + + +Release 2023b - 2023-03-23 19:50:38 -0700 Changes to future timestamps This year Lebanon springs forward April 20/21 not March 25/26. - (Thanks to Saadallah Itani.) + (Thanks to Saadallah Itani.) [This was reverted in 2023c.] Release 2023a - 2023-03-22 12:39:33 -0700 diff --git a/tz/asia b/tz/asia index dd06a5f..a29a4dc 100644 --- a/tz/asia +++ b/tz/asia @@ -2693,9 +2693,37 @@ Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1908 Apr 1 # Lebanon # # From Saadallah Itani (2023-03-23): -# Lebanon too announced today delay of Spring forward from March 25 to April 20. -# From Paul Eggert (2023-03-23): +# Lebanon ... announced today delay of Spring forward from March 25 to April 20. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2023-03-27): +# This announcement was by the Lebanese caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati. # https://www.mtv.com.lb/en/News/Local/1352516/lebanon-postpones-daylight-saving-time-adoption +# A video was later leaked to the media of parliament speaker Nabih Berri +# asking Mikati to postpone DST to aid observance of Ramadan, Mikati objecting +# that this would cause problems such as scheduling airline flights, to which +# Berri interjected, "What flights?" +# +# The change was controversial and led to a partly-sectarian divide. +# Many Lebanese institutions, including the education ministry, the Maronite +# church, and two news channels LCBI and MTV, ignored the announcement and +# went ahead with the long-scheduled spring-forward on March 25/26, some +# arguing that the prime minister had not followed the law because the change +# had not been approved by the cabinet. Google went with the announcement; +# Apple ignored it. At least one bank followed the announcement for its doors, +# but ignored the announcement in internal computer systems. +# Beirut international airport listed two times for each departure. +# Dan Azzi wrote "My view is that this whole thing is a Dumb and Dumber movie." +# Eventually the prime minister backed down, said the cabinet had decided to +# stick with its 1998 decision, and that DST would begin midnight March 29/30. +# https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/miscellaneous/604093/lebanon-has-two-times-of-day-amid-daylight-savings +# https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/27/lebanon-in-two-different-time-zones-as-government-disagrees-on-daylight-savings.html +# +# Although we could model the chaos with two Zones, that would likely cause +# more trouble than it would cure. Since so many manual clocks and +# computer-based timestamps ignored the announcement, stick with official +# cabinet resolutions in the data while recording the prime minister's +# announcement as a comment. This is how we treated a similar situation in +# Rio de Janeiro in spring 1993. # # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S @@ -2719,11 +2747,13 @@ Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - -Rule Lebanon 1993 2022 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - -Rule Lebanon 2023 only - Apr 21 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Lebanon 2024 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S +# This one-time rule, announced by the prime minister first for April 21 +# then for March 30, is commented out for reasons described above. +#Rule Lebanon 2023 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S + # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT diff --git a/tz/tz-art.html b/tz/tz-art.html index 5679534..c86c186 100644 --- a/tz/tz-art.html +++ b/tz/tz-art.html @@ -478,22 +478,35 @@

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Total Time1:16:20 AMG Rating4 stars NotesIncludes the song "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" +  +ArtistEmanuele Arciuli +ComposerWilliam Duckworth +CDThe Time Curve Preludes +Copyright Date2023 +LabelNeuma +Total Time44:46 +NotesThe first work of postminimal music. Unlike minimalism, it does not assume that the listener has plenty of time.

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