No, the time zone of Qostanay did not change and Asia/Almaty can be used for Qostanay. In the decree the border of division of time zones according to the regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan is specified (Paragraph 3). You can trace this border on the map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Provinces_of_Kazakhstan_Image_Map UTC+5 | UTC+6 ----------+---------- AKTOBE | KOSTANAY KYZYLORDA | KARAGANDY | SOUTH KAZ On 21/12/18 02:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 12/20/18 9:17 AM, Alexander Konzurovski wrote:
Qyzylorda Region (Asia/Qyzylorda) is changing its time zone from UTC+6 to UTC+5 effective December 21st, 2018. The legal document is located here: http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P1800000817 (russian language).
Accordingly resolution the time zone must be changed on December 20 18:00 UTC.
Thanks for the heads-up. Unfortunately this was not much notice, as the change occurred less than 45 minutes after you sent your email, and this was before I read the email. So the proposed tzdb patch (attached) is for both past and future timestamps.
Did Qostanay (also known as Kostanay or Қостанай) also change? The proposed patch assumes Qostanay did not change, as this is what Google Translate implies from the URL you sent. But if this is incorrect and Qostanay also changed, that would make the patch smaller as we can then avoid creating a special Zone entry for Qostanay.
I suppose we'll need a new tzdb release soon for this.
-- Alexander Konzurovski