Re: [tz] Astrakhan region got approval to change its time zone

On 02/12/2016 11:29 AM, Alexander Krivenyshev wrote:

http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/work/dz.nsf/ByID/DE3C735A7CF5622743257F56004250F4/ $File/91250509-91280822.pdf Thanks for the heads-up. It looks like we'll need a new zone Europe/Astrakhan, split off from the existing Europe/Volgograd. Will the new zone will switch from UTC+3 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00, to UTC+4? This detail is not in the above URL.

In the tz database, rather than give the new zone an invented abbreviation like "ASTT" that does not correspond to existing practice, I'd like to get out of the name-inventing business and just use "+04".