@@ -2729,9 +2729,37 @@ Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jul 1
27292729# Lebanon
27302730#
27312731# From Saadallah Itani (2023-03-23):
2732- # Lebanon too announced today delay of Spring forward from March 25 to April 20.
2733- # From Paul Eggert (2023-03-23):
2732+ # Lebanon ... announced today delay of Spring forward from March 25 to April 20.
2733+ #
2734+ # From Paul Eggert (2023-03-27):
2735+ # This announcement was by the Lebanese caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati.
27342736# https://www.mtv.com.lb/en/News/Local/1352516/lebanon-postpones-daylight-saving-time-adoption
2737+ # A video was later leaked to the media of parliament speaker Nabih Berri
2738+ # asking Mikati to postpone DST to aid observance of Ramadan, Mikati objecting
2739+ # that this would cause problems such as scheduling airline flights, to which
2740+ # Berri interjected, "What flights?"
2741+ #
2742+ # The change was controversial and led to a partly-sectarian divide.
2743+ # Many Lebanese institutions, including the education ministry, the Maronite
2744+ # church, and two news channels LCBI and MTV, ignored the announcement and
2745+ # went ahead with the long-scheduled spring-forward on March 25/26, some
2746+ # arguing that the prime minister had not followed the law because the change
2747+ # had not been approved by the cabinet. Google went with the announcement;
2748+ # Apple ignored it. At least one bank followed the announcement for its doors,
2749+ # but ignored the announcement in internal computer systems.
2750+ # Beirut international airport listed two times for each departure.
2751+ # Dan Azzi wrote "My view is that this whole thing is a Dumb and Dumber movie."
2752+ # Eventually the prime minister backed down, said the cabinet had decided to
2753+ # stick with its 1998 decision, and that DST would begin midnight March 29/30.
2754+ # https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/miscellaneous/604093/lebanon-has-two-times-of-day-amid-daylight-savings
2755+ # https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/27/lebanon-in-two-different-time-zones-as-government-disagrees-on-daylight-savings.html
2756+ #
2757+ # Although we could model the chaos with two Zones, that would likely cause
2758+ # more trouble than it would cure. Since so many manual clocks and
2759+ # computer-based timestamps ignored the announcement, stick with official
2760+ # cabinet resolutions in the data while recording the prime minister's
2761+ # announcement as a comment. This is how we treated a similar situation in
2762+ # Rio de Janeiro in spring 1993.
27352763#
27362764# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
27372765Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S
@@ -2755,11 +2783,13 @@ Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
27552783Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
27562784Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
27572785Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
2758- Rule Lebanon 1993 2022 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
2786+ Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
27592787Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
27602788Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
2761- Rule Lebanon 2023 only - Apr 21 0:00 1:00 S
2762- Rule Lebanon 2024 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
2789+ # This one-time rule, announced by the prime minister first for April 21
2790+ # then for March 30, is commented out for reasons described above.
2791+ #Rule Lebanon 2023 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S
2792+
27632793# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
27642794Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
27652795 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
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