Dear Sirs, I'm one of network administrators of Internet service provider ElCat (http://www.elcat.kg/). We are place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. We use FreeBSD 4.10 and 5.4 and we need to update time zone file for our country. Our government cancels daylight saving time 6th of August 2005.
From August 12 2005 our GMT-offset is +6, w/o any daylight saving.
Please check my changes for zone Asia/Bishkek and rule Kirgiz in file /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/asia is correct and make the changes for use in the future: #--- cut here # Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) # Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/ Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - Rule Kirgiz 1997 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S Rule Kirgiz 1997 2004 - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT 2005 Aug 12 # Kirgizstan Time 6:00 - KGT # Kyrgyzstan Time #--- cut here Unfortunately I didn't find any official documents published in Internet in English. Thank you much. Malik Abdugaliev. # Network Administrator # ElCat, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan # ZED-RIPE # http://www.elcat.kg/