On Tue, Feb 16, 2016, at 02:25, Paul Eggert wrote:
Matt Johnson wrote:
it seems to me that the people living in the region will consider this as a move from Moscow time to Samara time.
I really doubt whether they'll think they're on Samara time.
There would be a precedent in the fact that the Russian Wikipedia (which lists abbreviations, and doesn't 100% agree with us [USZ1 instead of EET for Kaliningrad]) doesn't recognize NOVT, but instead calls the whole UTC+6/MSK+3 timezone "OMST". Worldtimezone.com, incidentally, has a list of _names_ (not associated with abbreviations, the abbreviations given are simply USZ1 through UZ11), with no clear source but different from ours: - Kaliningrad Time - Moscow Time - Volga Time - Ural Time - West-Siberian Time - Yenisei Time - Irkutsk Time - Amur Time - Vladivostok Time - Okhotsk Time - Kamchatka Time I'm a bit uncomfortable with Russia being treated as a "second class citizen" of the timezone database just because people don't often write times there in English.