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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)asia	7.42
+# @(#)asia	7.48
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
@@ -78,13 +78,14 @@ Zone	Asia/Kabul	4:36:48 -	LMT	1890
 			4:30	-	AFT
 
 # Armenia
-# From Paul Eggert (1998-??-??):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
 # Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991,
 # but usno1995 has Armenia at 4:00 (with DST), and Edgar Der-Danieliantz
 # <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
 # in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995.  IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
 # Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
-# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
+# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.  IATA SSIM (1999-02) reports
+# that they switch one day later in 2001 (i.e. on Mondays).
 # What a mess!  We guess Yerevan DST stayed in sync with Moscow between 1990
 # and 1995, did not use DST in 1996, and started using DST again in 1997.
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -365,10 +366,10 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura	9:22:48 -	LMT	1932 Nov
 			9:00	-	JAYT
 
 # Iran
-# From Paul Eggert (1996-12-17), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:
 # Ahmea Alavi in
 # <a href="http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt">
-# TAGHVEEM (1993-08-04)
+# TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12)
 # </a>
 # writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day
 # of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.''  This disagrees with the SSIM:
@@ -382,6 +383,10 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura	9:22:48 -	LMT	1932 Nov
 #	1995	03-21	03-21	09-22!= 09-23
 #	1996	03-21!=	03-20	09-21!= 09-22
 #	1997	03-21	03-21	09-21!= 09-23
+#	1998	03-21	03-21	09-21!= 09-23
+#	1999	03-22!=	03-21	09-22!= 09-23
+#	2000	03-21!=	03-20	09-21!= 09-22
+#	2001	03-17!=	03-21	09-19!= 09-23
 #
 # Go with Alavi starting with 1992.
 # I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates.
@@ -648,10 +653,14 @@ Zone	Asia/Tokyo	9:18:59	-	LMT	1887 Dec 31 15:00u
 # Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
 
 # Jordan
-# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-05-08):
-# Jordan do not have DST this year.  It also seems that they are not going
-# to use it the next years either.  "We do not need it" was the answer I got
-# from the Jordan National Information Centre (http://www.nic.gov.jo).
+#
+# From
+# <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
+# Jordan Week (1999-07-01)
+# </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
+# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight,
+# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time
+# all year round.
 #
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule    Jordan	1973	only	-	Jun	6	0:00	1:00	S
@@ -676,7 +685,8 @@ Rule    Jordan	1994	only	-	Sep	Fri>=15	0:00	0	-
 Rule    Jordan	1995	1998	-	Sep	Fri>=15	0:00s	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Amman	2:23:44 -	LMT	1931
-			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT
+			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT	1999 Jul
+			2:00	1:00	EEST
 
 # Kazakhstan
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
@@ -792,7 +802,8 @@ 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	max	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00	1:00	S
-Rule	Lebanon	1993	max	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
+Rule	Lebanon	1993	1998	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
+Rule	Lebanon	1999	max	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Beirut	2:22:00 -	LMT	1880
 			2:00	Lebanon	EE%sT
@@ -934,7 +945,17 @@ Zone	Asia/Karachi	4:28:12 -	LMT	1907
 # one-hour forward at this time.  As a sign of independence from Israeli rule,
 # the PA has decided to implement DST in April.
 
-# These rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
+# Daoud Kuttab writes in
+# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html">
+# Holiday havoc
+# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that
+# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15.
+# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source).
+# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
+# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
+
+# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule EgyptAsia	1957	only	-	May	10	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule EgyptAsia	1957	1958	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
@@ -942,12 +963,17 @@ Rule EgyptAsia	1958	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule EgyptAsia	1959	1967	-	May	 1	1:00	1:00	S
 Rule EgyptAsia	1959	1965	-	Sep	30	3:00	0	-
 Rule EgyptAsia	1966	only	-	Oct	 1	3:00	0	-
+
+Rule Palestine	1999	max	-	Apr	Fri>=15	0:00	1:00	S
+Rule Palestine	1999	max	-	Oct	Fri>=15	0:00	0	-
+
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Gaza	2:17:52	-	LMT	1900 Oct
 			2:00	Zion	EET	1948 May 15
 			2:00 EgyptAsia	EE%sT	1967 Jun  5
 			2:00	Zion	I%sT	1996
-			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT
+			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT	1999
+			2:00 Palestine	EE%sT
 
 # Paracel Is
 # no information
@@ -1053,7 +1079,8 @@ Rule	Syria	1992	only	-	Apr	 8	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Syria	1993	only	-	Mar	26	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Syria	1993	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	0	-
 # IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1997-03-31; (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
-# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; ignore all these claims for now.
+# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
+# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; ignore all these claims for now.
 Rule	Syria	1994	max	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Syria	1994	max	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]