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Morocco Ramadan 2016
by Matt Johnson March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

We are currently guessing DST will be suspended in Morocco from Sunday June 5th at 03:00 to Sunday July 10th at 02:00. Does anyone have any confirmation on this yet? Thanks, Matt

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[PATCH] Update Kirov and Tomsk commented-out old data
by Paul Eggert March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

* europe (Europe/Kirov, Asia/Tomsk): Adjust early parts of these commented-out entries to match Shanks. --- europe | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/europe b/europe index 0187263..456c8dc 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -2580,12 +2580,9 @@ Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 # The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). # # Europe/Kirov is still in draft form and for now is commented out. -# Its pre-2002 data were cloned from Europe/Volgograd and need to -# be updated for Kirov. # -#Zone Europe/Kirov 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 +#Zone Europe/Kirov 3:18:48 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 # 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 -# 4:00 - +04 1961 Nov 11 # 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # 4:00 - +04 1992 Mar 29 2:00s @@ -2738,9 +2735,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 # 70 RU-TOM Tomsk Oblast # # Asia/Tomsk is still in draft form and for now is commented out. -# Its pre-1993 data were cloned from Asia/Novosibirsk and need to be -# updated for Tomsk. Also, Tomsk may be changing time zones this year -# (not decided yet). +# Tomsk may be changing time zones in 2016 (not decided yet). # From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): # Tomsk is still 4 hours ahead of Moscow. @@ -2755,7 +2750,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 # with time zones in 2011 with different numberings (there was a # 2-hour gap between second and third zones in 2011-2014). -#Zone Asia/Tomsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 +#Zone Asia/Tomsk 5:39:52 - LMT 1919 Dec 22 # 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 # 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s -- 2.5.0

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Azerbaijan timezone settings
by Chingiz Sadigov March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Hello, I would like to inform you that starting from 17 March this year Azerbaijan decided not use daylight saving settings for our timezone Asia/Baku. Link for news: http://e-qanun.az/framework/32383 Is it possible to update information on your site according this? Regards, [Email Signatures_etcp-02] [cid:image002.jpg@01D18514.526B2A10] [Ericsson]<http://www.ericsson.com/> CHINGIZ SADIGOV Senior Services Engineer BAZ - Ericsson AB Branch Office Azerbaijan Ericsson 44, J.Jabbarly str. AZ1065, Azerbaijan Phone +994125963838 Mobile +994502210861 Office 863217 chingiz.sadigov(a)ericsson.com www.ericsson.com [http://www.ericsson.com/current_campaign]<http://www.ericsson.com/current_campaign> Legal entity: BAZ - Ericsson AB Branch Office Azerbaijan, registered office in Baku. This Communication is Confidential. We only send and receive email on the basis of the terms set out at www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer<http://www.ericsson.com/email_disclaimer>

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Daylight Saving time will not be applied in Azerbaijan
by Burak AYDIN March 23, 2016

March 23, 2016

Dear Sir, Daylight saving time is cancelled in Azerbaijan. Here is the related information published from government: http://azertag.az/xeber/936300 Normally DST will be active on 27th of March 2016. I have updated the "asia" file as displayed below. # Azerbaijan # From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23): # According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997 # From Paul Eggert (2015-09-17): It was Resolution No. 21 (1997-03-17). # http://code.az/files/daylight_res.pdf # From Burak AYDIN, Kentkart A.S. (2016-03-23) # According to law change http://azertag.az/xeber/936300 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan Time 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 2016 4:00 - AZT The file is also attached. I will appreciate if you can check and publish new version of tz database. Best Regards, Burak AYDIN --- GIZLILIK NOTU: Bu e-posta mesaji kisiye özel olup, gizli bilgiler içeriyor olabilir. Eger bu e-posta mesaji size yanlislikla ulasmissa, içerigini hiç bir sekilde kullanmayiniz ve ekli dosyalari açmayiniz. Bu durumda lütfen e-posta mesajini kullaniciya hemen geri gönderiniz ve tüm kopyalarini mesaj kutunuzdan siliniz. Bu e-posta mesaji, hiç bir sekilde, herhangi bir amaç için çogaltilamaz, yayinlanamaz ve para karsiligi satilamaz. Bu e-posta mesajindaki görüsler yalnizca gönderen kisiye aittir ve Kentkart Sirketler Grubunun görüslerini yansitmayabilir. Bu e-posta mesaji virüslere karsi anti-virüs sistemleri tarafindan taranmistir. Ancak Kentkart Sirketler Grubu, bu e-posta mesajinin -virüs koruma sistemleri ile kontrol ediliyor olsa bile- virüs içermedigini garanti etmez ve meydana gelebilecek zararlardan dogacak hiç bir sorumlulugu kabul etmez. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed , and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or you receive this mail by mistake, you should refrain from making any use of the contents and from opening any attachment. In that case, please notify the sender immediately and return the message to the sender, then, delete and destroy all copies. This e-mail message, cannot be copied, published or sold for any reason. Any opinions presented in this email are solely those of the sender and may not necessarily reflect those of Kentkart Group of Companies. This e-mail message has been scanned by anti-virus systems for the presence of computer viruses. In doing so, however, Kentkart Group of Companies does not warrant that virus or other forms of data corruption and do not take any responsibility in any occurrence. ---

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Reference to EWT
by Dave Cantor March 22, 2016

March 22, 2016

Here's a photo of a Maui newspaper announcing the end of WWII at 7 pm Eastern War Time. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good enough picture to get the article detail, but I'll try again next I'm where this picture hangs. Dave C. The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer. If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance. ---- File information ----------- File: WWIIends7pmEWT.jpg Date: 22 Mar 2016, 18:00 Size: 6144 bytes. Type: JPEG-image

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404 for tz-how-to.html at IANA
by Matt Johnson March 22, 2016

March 22, 2016

tz-link.html has a link to tz-how-to-html. However, when viewed on iana.org, the link gives a 404. http://www.iana.org/time-zones points at: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html points at: http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-how-to.html 404

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tzdata2016c
by Patsy Franklin March 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

Hi Paul, Any ETA for this update? Thanks! Patsy

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efele.net/tz maps updated for TZ 2016b
by Eric Muller March 21, 2016

March 21, 2016

I have updated the efele.net/tz maps (http://efele.net/maps/tz) to TZ 2016b. Eric

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Chile goes back to DST (...)
by Juan Correa March 18, 2016

March 18, 2016

Today the Chilean Ministry of Energy announced that they will go back to a DST scheme this year. That means clocks will go back 1 hour at 0:00 May 15th (jumping back to May 14th); and will go forward by 1 hour on 0:00, August 14th. This was decided after a public outcry during winter, when the sunrise for Santiago went as late as 8:45 AM Some media outlets carrying the news (in Spanish): - http://www.soychile.cl/Santiago/Sociedad/2016/03/13/380779/Vuelve-el- horario-de-invierno-a-partir-de-la-segunda-semana-de-mayo.aspx - http://www.biobiochile.cl/2016/03/13/gobierno-retrocede-y-decreta-el- regreso-del-horario-de-invierno.shtml - http://www.t13.cl/noticia/nacional/chile-volvera-implementar-horario- invierno There is no official decree yet; or confirmation whether this decision will be only for 2016, or will be carried from now on (or until the next goverment :P) -- Juan Correa Poblete PS Labs (http://www.pslabs.cl)

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Discrepancies in European part of Russia (and nearby)
by Stepan Golosunov March 18, 2016

March 18, 2016

Hi, I compared Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Ulyanovsk and https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%8F_%D0%B2_%D0%A0%… , noticed some discrepancies and decided to look a bit closer. 1. Europe/Astrakhan, 1961 transition. That one appears to be void and looks like an artifact of Stalingrad -> Volgograd renaming. 2. Europe/Samara, KUYT in 1991. Europe/Samara currently has KUYT between 1991-09-29 and 1991-10-20. But the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR about renaming Kuybyshev to Samara is dated 1991-01-25: http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102010448 I also wanted to check the date of the 1991-10-20 transition but did not found any sources. 3. Europe/Chisinau, 1990 transitions. While googling for Soviet era documents for Russian zones I found the act of the government of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 132 from 04.05.1990 http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=2&id=298782 It says that since 1990-05-06 on the territory of the Moldavian SSR time would be calculated as the standard time of the second time belt plus one hour of the "summer" time. To implement that clocks would be adjusted one hour backwards at 1990-05-06 2:00. After that "summer" time would be cancelled last Sunday of September at 3:00 and reintroduced last Sunday of March at 2:00. I believe that means UTC+0400 -> UTC+0300 transition at 1990-05-06 02:00 and that UTC+0300 -> UTC+0200 transition on 1990-09-30 was expected, while current Europe/Chisinau says UTC+0300 -> UTC+0200 at 1990-05-06 00:00 and no transitions on 1990-03-25 and 1990-09-30. 4. Asia/Barnaul, 1995. Letter of Bank of Russia from 25.05.1995 http://www.bestpravo.ru/rossijskoje/lj-akty/y3a.htm suggests that Altai Republic transitioned to Moscow+3 on 1995-05-28. Currently Asia/Barnaul guesses it was on Moscow+3 since 1992-01-19. http://regnum.ru/news/society/1957270.html has some historical data for Altai Krai: before 1957: west part on UTC+6, east on UTC+7 after 1957: UTC+7 since 1995: UTC+6 http://barnaul.rusplt.ru/index/pochemu_altajskij_kraj_okazalsja_v_neprivych… confirms that and provides more details including 1995-05-28 transition date. 5. Tomsk, 2002. http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102075743 transitions Tomsk to the time of the fifth time belt at 2002-05-01 03:00. Tomsk currently is listed under Asia/Novosibirsk with transition to Moscow+3 on 1993-05-23. 6. Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Volgograd, 1991-1992 UTC+0400. Wikipedia provides different guess for these dates but explicitly says it's a guess. Are there any sources? 7. 1988 and 1989 changes. Wikipedia and other sources refer to the Act of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 04.01.1988 No. 5 and the Act of the Council of Ministers of the USSR from 14.03.1989 No. 227 I did not found full texts of these acts. For the 1989 one we have title at http://base.garant.ru/70754136/ : "About change in calculation of time on the territories of Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR and Estonian SSR, Astrakhan, Kaliningrad, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk and Uralsk oblasts". And http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt appears to contain quotes from both acts: Since last Sunday of March 1988 rules of the second time belt are installed in Volgograd and Saratov oblasts. Since last Sunday of March 1989: a) Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Estonian SSR, Kaliningrad oblast: second time belt rules without extra hour (Moscow-1); b) Astrakhan, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk oblasts: second time belt rules (Moscow time) c) Uralsk oblast: third time belt rules (Moscow+1). Currently Europe/Riga, Europe/Tallinn, Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Samara, Europe/Ulyanovsk and Asia/Oral agree with the acts; Europe/Volgograd, Europe/Vilnius and Europe/Kaliningrad disagree. The 1989 act is mentioned in the comments for Latvia. 8. Europe/Kaliningrad, 1989-1992. Contemporary article reproduced at http://www.rgo.ru/ru/kaliningradskoe-oblastnoe-otdelenie/ob-otdelenii/publi… confirms that the 1989 change to Moscow-1 was implemented. (The article, though, is misattributed to 1990 while saying that summer->winter transition would be done on the 24 of September. But 1990-09-24 was Monday, while 1989-09-24 was Sunday as expected.) 2014 article at http://www.kaliningradka.ru/site_pc/cherez/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=40091 says that Kaliningrad switched to Moscow-1 on 1989-03-26, avoided at the last moment switch to Moscow-1 on 1991-03-31, switched to Moscow on 1991-11-03, switched to Moscow-1 on 1992-01-19. Europe/Kaliningrad currently disagrees with this between 1989-03-26 and 1991-11-03. 9. Europe/Vilnius, 1989. Lithuania most probably did switch to Moscow-1 on 1989-03-26 but this is not reflected in Europe/Vilnius. 10. Europe/Volgograd, 1988-1989. Volgograd and Saratov supposedly switched to Moscow time on 1998-03-27. Kirov supposedly switched on 1989-03-26. Europe/Volgograd currently says switch happend on 1989-03-26. 11. Regions-violators, 1981-1982. Wikipedia refers to http://maps.monetonos.ru/maps/raznoe/Old_Maps/Old_Maps/Articles/022/3_1981.… and http://besp.narod.ru/nauka_1981_3.htm . The second link provides two articles scanned from the Nauka i Zhizn magazine No. 3, 1981 and a scan of the short article attributed to the Trud newspaper from Feburary 1982. The first link provides the same Nauka i Zhizn articles converted to the text form (but misses time belt changes map). The second Nauka i Zhizn article says that in addition to introduction of summer time on 1981-04-01 there are some time belt border changes on 1981-10-01, mostly affecting Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Yakutia, Magadan Oblast and Chukotka according to the provided map (colored one). In addition to that "time violators" (regions which were not using rules of the time belts in which they were located) would not be moving off the DST on 1981-10-01 to restore the decree time usage. (Komi ASSR was supposed to repeat that move in October 1982 to account for the 2 hour difference.) Map depicting "time violators" before 1981-10-01 is also provided. The article from Trud says that 1981-10-01 changes caused problems and some territories would be moved to pre-1981-10-01 time by not moving to summer time on 1982-04-01. Namely: Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkar, Kalmyk, Komi, Mari, Mordovian, North Ossetian, Tatar, Chechen-Ingush and Chuvash ASSR, Krasnodar and Stavropol krais, Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Vologda, Voronezh, Gorky, Ivanovo, Kostroma, Lipetsk, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov, Tyumen and Yaroslavl oblasts, Nenets and Evenk autonomous okrugs, Khatangsky district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug. As a result Evenk Autonomous Okrug and Khatangsky district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug would end up on Moscow+4, Tyumen Oblast on Moscow+2 and the rest on Moscow time. http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt attributes the 1982 changes to the Act of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 126 from 18.02.1982. 1980-925.txt also adds Udmurtia to the list of affected territories and lists Khatangsky district separately from Taymyr Autonomous Okurg. Probably erroneously. The affected territories are currently listed under Europe/Moscow, Asia/Yekaterinburg and Asia/Krasnoyarsk. 12. Udmurtia The fact that Udmurtia is depicted as a violator in the Nauka i Zhizn article hints at Izhevsk being on different time from Kuybyshev before 1981-10-01. Udmurtia is not mentioned in the 1989 act. http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt implies Udmurtia was on Moscow time after 1982-04-01. Wikipedia implies Udmurtia being on Moscow+1 until 1991.

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