Using astro.com I found some interesting information. Atyrau is known as Gurjev in astro.com, and was on LMT until 1 Jan 1931 then GMT+3 (no DST) until 1 Jan 1941 then GMT+4 (no DST) until 1 Jan 1946 then GMT+3 (no DST) until 1 Jan 1964 then GMT+4 (no DST) until 1 Apr 1981 then GMT+6 (with DST) etc. until 1 Oct 1981 ... Aqtobe is known as Akt'ubinsk in astro.com, and was on LMT until 1 Jan 1931 then GMT+4 (no DST) until 1 Jan 1941 then GMT+5 (no DST) until 1 Jan 1946 then GMT+4 (no DST) until 1 Jan 1964 then GMT+5 (no DST) until 1 Apr 1981 then GMT+6 (with DST) etc. until 1 Oct 1981 ... I don't know how much we should believe this, but at least it suggests that there are quite a number of differences between astro.com data and the tz database, and besides that Atyrau might be a time zone in it's own. I couldn't find the location Aqtau, perhaps a spelling problem. Comments? Regards, - Jesper -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu] Sent: Miércoles, 13 de Septiembre de 2006 7:20 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Kazakhstan question Jesper Norgaard Welen <jnorgard@prodigy.net.mx> writes:
Atyrau lies betwen the Aqtobe and Mangghystau (Aqtau) regions. Do we know if it followed Asia/Aqtobe or Asia/Aqtau in the past?
I don't know personally, but you should be able to use <http://www.astro.com/cgi/aq.cgi> to find out what Shanks & Pottenger think. Spelling could be a problem, though.