# From Sharef Mustafa (2016-10-19):

# [T]he Palestinian cabinet decision (Mar 8th 2016) published on

# http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/WebSite/Upload/Decree/GOV_17/16032016134830.pdf

# states that summer time will end on Oct 29th at 01:00.

#

# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-19):

# Predict fall transitions on October's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on.

# This is consistent with the 2016 transition as well as our spring

# predictions.

#

# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-19):

# It's also consistent with predictions in the following URLs today:

# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza

# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron

Rule Palestine 2014 2015 - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 -

Rule Palestine 2016 max - Oct lastSat 1:00 0 -

# From Sadika Sumanapala (2016-10-19):

# According to http://www.sltime.org (maintained by Measurement Units,

# Standards & Services Department, Sri Lanka) abbreviation for Sri Lanka

# standard time is SLST.

#

# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-18):

# "SLST" seems to be reasonably recent and rarely-used outside time

# zone nerd sources. I searched Google News and found three uses of

# it in the International Business Times of India in February and

# March of this year when discussing cricket match times, but nothing

# since then (though there has been a lot of cricket) and nothing in

# other English-language news sources. Our old abbreviation "LKT" is

# even worse. For now, let's use a numeric abbreviation; we can

# switch to "SLST" if it catches on.

5:30 - +0530 1942 Jan 5

5:30 0:30 +0530/+06 1942 Sep

5:30 1:00 +0530/+0630 1945 Oct 16 2:00

5:30 - +0530 1996 May 25 0:00

6:30 - +0630 1996 Oct 26 0:30

6:00 - +06 2006 Apr 15 0:30

5:30 - +0530

# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04):

# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx

# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when

# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will

# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017."

# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03):

# http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm

# From Kıvanç Yazan (2016-09-25):

# 1) For 1986-2006, DST started at 01:00 local and ended at 02:00 local, with

# no exceptions.

# 2) 1994's lastSun was overridden with Mar 20 ...

# Here are official papers:

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19032.pdf - page 2 for 1986

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19400.pdf - page 4 for 1987

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19752.pdf - page 15 for 1988

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20102.pdf - page 6 for 1989

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20464.pdf - page 1 for 1990 - 1992

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21531.pdf - page 15 for 1993 - 1995

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21879.pdf - page 1 for overriding 1994

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/22588.pdf - page 1 for 1996, 1997

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/23286.pdf - page 10 for 1998 - 2000

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2001/03/20010324.htm#2 - for 2001

# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2002/03/20020316.htm#2 - for 2002-2006

# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-25):

# Prefer the above sources to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1985.

Rule Turkey 1986 1993 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S

Rule Turkey 1986 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -

Rule Turkey 1994 only - Mar 20 1:00s 1:00 S

Rule Turkey 1995 2006 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S

# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-21):

# Dowd's proposal left many details unresolved, such as where to draw

# lines between time zones. The key individual who made time zones

# work in the US was William Frederick Allen - railway engineer,

# managing editor of the Travelers' Guide, and secretary of the

# General Time Convention, a railway standardization group. Allen

# spent months in dialogs with scientific and railway leaders,

# developed a workable plan to institute time zones, and presented it

# to the General Time Convention on 1883-04-11, saying that his plan

# meant "local time would be practically abolished" - a plus for

# railway scheduling. By the next convention on 1883-10-11 nearly all

# railroads had agreed and it took effect on 1883-11-18 at 12:00.

# That Sunday was called the "day of two noons", as the eastern parts

# of the new zones observed noon twice. Allen witnessed the

# transition in New York City, writing:

#

# I heard the bells of St. Paul's strike on the old time. Four

# minutes later, obedient to the electrical signal from the Naval

# Observatory ... the time-ball made its rapid descent, the chimes

# of old Trinity rang twelve measured strokes, and local time was

# abandoned, probably forever.

#

# Most of the US soon followed suit. See:

# Bartky IR. The adoption of standard time. Technol Cult 1989 Jan;30(1):25-56.

# http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105430

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