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Rule Russia incorrect
by Konstantin Kivi Nov. 2, 2011

Nov. 2, 2011

Time Zone Data v. 2011m (Released 24 October 2011) file contains a line ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule Russia 1993 2010 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- which I believe means that last change to summer time was in 2010. This is incorrect, because this (2011) year we actually have changed time on last Sunday of March (by moving clock forward) I believe that for historical purposes the rule must looks as follows ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule Russia 1993 2011 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the other hand Rule --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule Russia 1996 2010 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- is correct, because Russia stopped using Daylight Savings Time switching because of a federal law "On calculation of time" signed by President Dmitry Medvedev on June 9, 2011 -- Sincerely yours, Konstantin Kivi <konst(a)sirena2000.ru> IT Director, Comtech-N JSC Moscow, Russia, +7-495-941-60-02

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Re: [tz] Sydney, Australia (and other places) DST indication (or lack thereof)
by Willy＠willylorenzo.com Nov. 1, 2011

Nov. 1, 2011

I appreciate the info. Several of the links given in the Australasia file are broken, which, of course, makes it impossible to review the referenced source, but I can see that this is a muddled subject. The only suggestion I would make is that if the "S" in EST is referring to both "standard" and "summer", then the FORMAT should be EST/EST...and maybe a "# (S)tandard/(S)ummer" comment added. At the very least it clearly indicates the decision that's been made for daylight saving time representation. As to what it should be...I'll leave that to the Australians (oh wait...isn't that the problem to begin with?) ;) On Mon Oct 31 12:55:06 2011 "Bill Tiede" <billt(a)chaossoftware.com> wrote: > For WorldTimeServer.com at least, we used two government sources for our time zone abbreviations for Australia: > > 1. Australia.gov.au at http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time > > 2. Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml > > There has been plenty of discussion in the past about how official these abbreviations are or how widely accepted within Australia these are, so keep in mind I'm not trying to reopen debate or anything, just responding to the question about where we got the idea to call it what we have. > > Best Regards, > Bill Tiede > > www.ChaosSoftware.com; www.WorldTimeServer.com

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