Hi, On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Arthur David Olson wrote:
Here are proposed changes to the time zone package. This set is limited to changes affecting 2011 time stamps, and I'm holding off on changes to Russia pending further information. The executive summary:
asia Palestine suspends DST during Ramadan in 2011; Gaza and Hebron split in 2011, leading to a new Asia/Hebron zone (thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Alexander Krivenshev). (The different end of DST in Gaza and Hebron in 2008 is also reflected.) europe Belarus adopts permanent DST in 2011 (thanks to Yauhen Kharuzhy, Alexander Bokovoy, Alexander Krivenyshev, and Kirill A. Shutemov). Given the Belarus change, "Russia" rules changed to reflect end of use in 2010. Also: a comment typo is fixed. According to http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb_n/webproc4_1?id=&pf3511=40036
Ukraine has adopted permanent DST today, September 20th. It means we would actually benefit from keeping EEST for Belarus and Ukraine.
*************** *** 700,706 **** 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 29 0:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1992 Sep 27 0:00s ! 2:00 Russia EE%sT
# Belgium # --- 716,723 ---- 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 29 0:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1992 Sep 27 0:00s ! 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s ! 3:00 - MINST # MINsk Standard Time Here if we would keep EEST name instead of MINST, we can use the same time zone naming for both Ukraine and Belarus.
-- / Alexander Bokovoy