On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Arthur David Olson <arthurdavidolson@gmail.com> wrote:
There are five places where this year's Russian Government Decree #725... http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/ ...and tzdata2011k differ on what current time is:
Place Decree #725 tzdata2011k Notes Bulunskij MSK+6 MSK+7 covered by Asia/Vladivostok The claim that this District (Ulus, Raion) was in Asia/Vladivostok is not supported by using
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIA_WorldFactBook_Time_Zones.svg and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulunsky_District and defining the district as not containing the New Siberian Islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bulynsky_ulus_location.PNG (2007 image has the district without the islands) http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Sakha_Republic_-_administrative_divisio... "Map of the uluses of Sakha Republic. The en:New Siberian Islands have a different coulour to indicate that they are not part of any ulus instead it is a natural reserve zone directly under jurisdiction of the Sakha Republic." CIA map from 2010 would have put Bulunskij in MSK+6 at that time.
Tomponskij MSK+6 MSK+7 covered by Asia/Vladivostok Ust'-Majskij MSK+6 MSK+7 covered by Asia/Vladivostok Ojmyakonskij MSK+7 MSK+8 covered by Asia/Magadan
Sakhalin MSK+8 MSK+7 already separate--Asia/Sakhalin
Sakhalin Oblast consists of the Sakhalin Island (several raions) and the Kurils (3 raions). According to http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/ MSK+8 contains Северо-Курильский район = North Kuril Raion MSK+7 contains all the rest. Currently Theory has Asia/Sakhalin # Sakhalinskaya oblast'. # The Zone name should be Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long. Asia/Magadan: # Probably also: Kuril Islands. CIA 2010 has the Kurils at MSK+8 together with Magadan. If CIA was correct then a new zone maybe called Asia/Yuzhno-Kurilsk needs to be created, as proposed 2011-09-22 : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4043 Since the southern Kurils switched from Magadan to Vladivostok. Note that Ojmyakonskij may have switched too. But I don't want to write about that, since I am not sure the feedback is read by the maintainers. Unanswered zone proposals: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4043 Asia/Yuzhno-Kurilsk http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4011 Asia/Tomsk, Asia/Barnaul http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/3991 Europe/Buesingen -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/tobias_conradi