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NOVT UTC+6 -> +7
by Евгений Пестов July 5, 2016

July 5, 2016

Hi! Timezone Asia/Novosibirsk (NOVT) change UTC+6 to UTC+7 at 2016-07-24 02:00 (local time). This change has been signed into the law by the President and published 2016-07-04: http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201607040064?index=0&rang… Best wishes Evgeny Pestov.

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Saratov and Novosibirsk proposed to change their time zones
by Stepan Golosunov July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

Hi, Search for "об исчислении времени" on http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/SearchUD?OpenForm revealed 3 new bills changing time zone borders in Russia: http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1058438-6 and http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1083558-6 move Saratov oblast from UTC+3 to UTC+4. http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1085784-6 moves Novosibirsk oblast from UTC+6 to UTC+7. Given that the last two bills are proposed by regional parliaments, they are likely to be approved. When is less clear. The bills currently have effective dates in July, but that can be easily changed before the second readings. And they are just received while there are only 4 weeks before the summer break in the State Duma.

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Re: [tz] Novosibirsk, +06 -> +07 on 2016-07-24
by Pupkov, Dmitry July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

It looks like this has been officially signed by the President, and this is now a formal law. Changes will take into effect on 24th of July. http://ria.ru/society/20160704/1458396876.html Regards, Dmitry Thanks for the heads-up. Since it seems so likely this will go through, I'm attaching a proposed patch that I have installed into the experimental tz database on Github. While I'm in the neighborhood this patch also removes invented abbreviations for Asia/Novosibirsk by switching to numeric abbreviations for that location and for Asia/Novokuznetsk (which used the same invented abbreviation).

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Re: [tz] Egypt cancelled DST
by Mina Samuel July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

It is confirmed officially about the decision, so your help appreciated as it will need time to apply this in a lot of nodes. -----Original Message----- From: Mina Samuel Sent: Monday, July 04, 2016 12:51 PM To: tz(a)iana.org; 'Paul Eggert' <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> Cc: Rafik Adib <rafik.adib(a)ericsson.com>; Gehan Moustafa, Vodafone Egypt (Gehan.Moustafa(a)vodafone.com) <Gehan.Moustafa(a)vodafone.com>; Shreef Khattab, Vodafone Egypt (Shreef.Khattab(a)vodafone.com) <Shreef.Khattab(a)vodafone.com>; Ramy Rasmy <ramy.rasmy(a)ericsson.com>; Yasser Elsawi, Vodafone Egypt <Yasser.Elsawi(a)vodafone.com> Subject: [tz] Egypt cancelled DST Dears, Egyptian government took the decision to cancel the DST, Can you please help to provide the updated package as to be able to apply the new/cancelled rules. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ar&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UT… http://www.youm7.com/story/2016/7/4/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8…

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Egypt Time Change cancellation
by Gehan Moustafa, Vodafone Egypt July 4, 2016

July 4, 2016

Dear All, Kindly be informed that according to Egyptian government DST has been cancelled , so please provide us with the cancllation package ASAP http://bit.ly/29iF6aC Best Regards, [Vodafone]<http://www.vodafone.com.eg/> Gehan Moustafa Mediation & Revenue Assurance Supervisor Charging, Mediation & IN Vodafone Egypt Telec. SA Mobile: +20 (10) 01008710 Email: gehan.moustafa(a)vodafone.com Vodafone Egypt, Smart Village : Vodafone C3 Building, Cairo/Alex. Desert Road KM 28- 6th of October City, Egypt vodafone.com.eg <http://www.vodafone.com.eg> ************************************************************************************************************************* The content of this document is classified as Vodafone Egypt S.A.E. Confidential and Proprietary Information. The recipient hereby is committed to hold in strict confidence the contents of this (e-mail, document, information) and not to disclose to any third party without the prior written consent of Vodafone Egypt S.A.E. Recipient will be held liable for any unauthorized disclosure. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message in its entirety, including any attachments. http://www.vodafone.com.eg *************************************************************************************************************************

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Europe/Minsk: September 1992 transition is incorrect?
by Ed Schouten July 2, 2016

July 2, 2016

Hi there, When taking a look at 'zdump -v Europe/Minsk' with tzcode2016e/tzdata2016e running on a FreeBSD 10 system, I observe the following: Europe/Minsk Sat Sep 26 23:59:59 1992 UTC = Sun Sep 27 02:59:59 1992 EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800 Europe/Minsk Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 1992 UTC = Sun Sep 27 02:00:00 1992 EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200 Now taking a look at the Zone definition of Minsk: 2:00 1:00 EEST 1992 Sep 27 0:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s My question is, shouldn't this transition have taken place two hours earlier? Can anyone else reproduce this? -- Ed Schouten <ed(a)nuxi.nl> Nuxi, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands KvK-nr.: 62051717

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Egypt to have DST again
by Steffen Thorsen July 2, 2016

July 2, 2016

Several of our users have reported on new DST plans in Egypt, which is confirmed by several sources that all say Egypt will have DST from July 7 until the end of October. Unfortunately, "end of October" is very vague, but we at timeanddate.com would assume a rule like this for it, based on their historic end dates: Rule Egypt 2016 max - Oct lastThu 23:00s 0 - We also assume it will start at the end of July 7 (midnight between Thursday and Friday). http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/204655/Egypt/Daylight-savings-ti… http://www.nileinternational.net/en/?p=25806 I found it interesting that EgyptAir seems to have assumed DST to start in April (like it previously did in 2010), and therefore this obviously causes problems with the schedules: http://www.egyptair.com/en/about-egyptair/news-and-press/Pages/CANCELLATION… Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com

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