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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)asia	7.35
+# @(#)asia	7.36
 
 # 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
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Phnom_Penh	6:59:40 -	LMT	1906 Jun  9
 			8:00	-	ICT	1931 May
 			7:00	-	ICT
 
-# People's Republic of China
+# China
 
 # From Guy Harris:
 # People's Republic of China.  Yes, they really have only one time zone.
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Hong_Kong	7:36:36 -	LMT	1904 Oct 30
 
 ###############################################################################
 
-# Republic of China
+# Taiwan
 
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Taiwan	1945	1951	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	D
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura	9:22:48 -	LMT	1932 Nov
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-12-17), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:
 # Ahmea Alavi in
 # <a href="http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt">
-# http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt (1993-08-04)
+# TAGHVEEM (1993-08-04)
 # </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:
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Bishkek	4:58:24 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 
 ###############################################################################
 
-# Korea
+# Korea (North and South)
 
 # From Guy Harris:
 # According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco,
@@ -779,9 +779,9 @@ Zone	Indian/Maldives	4:54:00 -	LMT	1880	# Male
 			5:00	-	MVT		# Maldives Time
 
 # Mongolia
-# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and
-# <a href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif">
-# http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif (1995)
+# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map
+# <a href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/rmap-pdf/802483.pdf">
+# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01)
 # </a>
 # both say that it has just one.
 # Let's comment out the western and eastern Mongolian time zones
@@ -827,6 +827,61 @@ Zone	Asia/Karachi	4:28:12 -	LMT	1907
 			5:00	-	PKT	# Pakistan Time
 
 # Palestine
+
+# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15):
+#
+# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now
+# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule.
+# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too...
+#
+# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05
+# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no
+# time zone was affected then).  It was never formally annexed to Egypt,
+# though.
+#
+# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally
+# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from
+# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the
+# Trans-Jordan").  So the rules for Jordan for that time apply.  Major
+# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and
+# East Jerusalem.
+#
+# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except
+# for East Jerusalem).  They were on Israel time since then; there might
+# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware
+# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer
+# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected).
+#
+# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most
+# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995.  I know that in order to
+# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to
+# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't
+# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the
+# Jordanian one).
+#
+# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that:
+#
+# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996-
+# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------
+# Israel      | Zion      | Zion      | Zion      | Zion
+# West bank   | Zion      | Jordan    | Zion      | Jordan
+# Gaza        | Zion      | Egypt     | Zion      | Jordan
+#
+# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they
+# have one).
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25):
+# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go
+# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947,
+# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996.
+# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since
+# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about
+# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
+# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries
+# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules
+# to Palestine's rules.  If you have more info about this, please
+# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions.
+
 # These 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
@@ -837,9 +892,10 @@ Rule EgyptAsia	1959	1965	-	Sep	30	3:00	0	-
 Rule EgyptAsia	1966	only	-	Oct	 1	3:00	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Gaza	2:17:52	-	LMT	1900 Oct
-			2:00	-	EET	1957 May 10
-			2:00 EgyptAsia	EE%sT	1967 Jun 30
-			2:00	Zion	I%sT
+			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
 
 # Paracel Is
 # no information
@@ -890,17 +946,17 @@ Zone	Asia/Singapore	6:55:24 -	LMT	1880
 # Sri Lanka
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
 # <a href="http://www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html">
-# http://www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html (1996-05-24)
+# Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout (1996-05-24)
 # </a>
 # reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at
 # midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.''
 # Transitions before 1996 are from Shanks (1991).
 #
 # From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted
-# in
+# by Shamindra in
 # <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net">
-# news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net (1996-10-26):
-# </a>
+# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26)
+# </a>:
 # With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996
 # Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT.
 
@@ -990,14 +1046,6 @@ Zone	Asia/Tashkent	4:37:12 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			5:00	-	UZT		    # Uzbekistan Time
 # Shanks has Tashkent using DST after 1991, but usno1995 says they don't.
 # Guess no DST after 1991.
-# <a href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif">
-# http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif (1995)
-# </a>
-# says that Uzbekistan has two time zones, but a cable
-# <a href="http://www.itaiep.doc.gov/bisnis/cables/960510uz.html">
-# http://www.itaiep.doc.gov/bisnis/cables/960510uz.html (1996-05-10)
-# </a>
-# from the American Embassy in Tashkent implies that they have just one.
 
 # Vietnam
 # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):