From e30b13efd4e510651fbaf7448e4784ee6acbded5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 15:02:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Russia moves most of its clocks back an hour this fall. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.) * europe: Document FET separately. Add a comment about whether Zabajkal'skij kraj needs a separate zone. (Europe/Kaliningrad, Europe/Moscow, Europe/Simferopol, Europe/Volgograd) (Asia/Yekaterinburg, Asia/Omsk, Asia/Novosibirsk, Asia/Irkutsk) (Asia/Yakutsk, and Asia/Vladivostok): Subtract an hour from the time zone on 2014-10-26 at 02:00 Moscow time. (Europe/Simferopol): Move to after Europe/Moscow, to simplify similar maintenance in the future. * NEWS: Document this. --- NEWS | 8 +++++ europe | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- 2 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index df41f71..d80bee1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes + Changes affecting future time stamps + + Russia will subtract an hour from many of its time zones on 2014-10-26 + at 02:00 Moscow time. (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.) + The affected zones are Europe/Kaliningrad, Europe/Moscow, + Europe/Simferopol, Europe/Volgograd, Asia/Yekaterinburg, Asia/Omsk, + Asia/Novosibirsk, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Yakutsk, and Asia/Vladivostok. + Changes affecting time zone abbreviations Australian eastern time zone abbreviations are now AEST/AEDT not EST, diff --git a/europe b/europe index 5ef94b0..7bd815a 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ # 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe # 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)* # 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe +# 3:00 FET Further-eastern Europe* # 3:00 MSK MSD MSM* Moscow # From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04), @@ -708,7 +709,7 @@ Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 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 - FET # Further-eastern European Time + 3:00 - FET # Belgium # @@ -2102,6 +2103,14 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # # Go with 2011-09-13 0:00s. +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-01): +# According to the Russian news (ITAR-TASS News Agency) +# http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/738562 +# the State Duma has approved ... the draft bill on returning to +# winter time standard and return Russia 11 time zones. The new +# regulations will come into effect on October 26, 2014 at 02:00 +# Moscow time. + # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations. # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991, @@ -2150,7 +2159,8 @@ Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 2:00 Poland CE%sT 1946 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s - 3:00 - FET # Further-eastern European Time + 3:00 - FET 2014 Oct 26 1:00 + 2:00 - EET # # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] # Respublika Adygeya, Arkhangel'skaya oblast', @@ -2181,7 +2191,43 @@ Zone Europe/Moscow 2:30:20 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 2011 Mar 27 2:00s - 4:00 - MSK + 4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00 + 3:00 - MSK +# +# Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997. +Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 + 2:16 - SMT 1924 May 2 # Simferopol Mean T + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Nov + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Apr 13 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 + 2:00 - EET 1992 +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched +# from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. +# Shanks (1999) says "date of change uncertain", but implies that it happened +# sometime between the 1994 DST switches. Shanks & Pottenger simply say +# 1994-09-25 03:00, but that can't be right. For now, guess it +# changed in May. + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May +# From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev. + 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 3:00s + 3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s +# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST. +# Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks. + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1997 + 3:00 - MSK 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-17): +# time change at 2:00 (2am) on March 30, 2014 +# http://vz.ru/news/2014/3/17/677464.html +# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-30): +# Simferopol and Sevastopol reportedly changed their central town clocks +# late the previous day, but this appears to have been ceremonial +# and the discrepancies are small enough to not worry about. + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2014 Mar 30 2:00 + 4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00 + 3:00 - MSK # # Astrakhanskaya oblast', Kirovskaya oblast', Saratovskaya oblast', # Volgogradskaya oblast'. Shanks & Pottenger say Kirov is still at +0400 @@ -2195,7 +2241,8 @@ Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 3:00 Russia VOL%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 4:00 - VOLT 1992 Mar 29 2:00s 3:00 Russia VOL%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s - 4:00 - VOLT + 4:00 - VOLT 2014 Oct 26 2:00 + 3:00 - VOLT # # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] # Samarskaya oblast', Udmyrtskaya respublika @@ -2222,7 +2269,8 @@ Zone Asia/Yekaterinburg 4:02:24 - LMT 1919 Jul 15 4:00 5:00 Russia SVE%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 4:00 Russia SVE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 5:00 Russia YEK%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s - 6:00 - YEKT # Yekaterinburg Time + 6:00 - YEKT 2014 Oct 26 4:00 + 5:00 - YEKT # # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] # Respublika Altaj, Altajskij kraj, Omskaya oblast'. @@ -2231,7 +2279,8 @@ Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:36 - LMT 1919 Nov 14 6:00 Russia OMS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 5:00 Russia OMS%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 6:00 Russia OMS%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s - 7:00 - OMST + 7:00 - OMST 2014 Oct 26 5:00 + 6:00 - OMST # # From Paul Eggert (2006-08-19): I'm guessing about Tomsk here; it's # not clear when it switched from +7 to +6. @@ -2242,7 +2291,8 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 6:00 Russia NOV%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P. 6:00 Russia NOV%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s - 7:00 - NOVT + 7:00 - NOVT 2014 Oct 26 5:00 + 6:00 - NOVT # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-10-13): # Kemerovo oblast' (Kemerovo region) in Russia will change current time zone on @@ -2295,7 +2345,8 @@ Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:20 - LMT 1880 8:00 Russia IRK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 7:00 Russia IRK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 8:00 Russia IRK%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s - 9:00 - IRKT + 9:00 - IRKT 2014 Oct 26 7:00 + 8:00 - IRKT # # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of] # Aginskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug, Amurskaya oblast', @@ -2305,6 +2356,11 @@ Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:20 - LMT 1880 # ...some regions of [Russia] were merged with others since 2005... # Some names were changed, no big deal, except for one instance: a new name. # YAK/YAKST: UTC+9 Zabajkal'skij kraj. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-01): +# Perhaps Zabajkal'skij kraj needs a separate entry? +# http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/738562 implies it will move to UTC+8 +# on 2014-10-26. # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): # The Sakha districts are: Aldanskij, Amginskij, Anabarskij, @@ -2319,7 +2375,8 @@ Zone Asia/Yakutsk 8:38:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 9:00 Russia YAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 8:00 Russia YAK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 9:00 Russia YAK%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s - 10:00 - YAKT + 10:00 - YAKT 2014 Oct 26 8:00 + 9:00 - YAKT # # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of] # Evrejskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskij kraj, Primorskij kraj, @@ -2332,7 +2389,8 @@ Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:44 - LMT 1922 Nov 15 10:00 Russia VLA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 9:00 Russia VLA%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 10:00 Russia VLA%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s - 11:00 - VLAT + 11:00 - VLAT 2014 Oct 26 9:00 + 10:00 - VLAT # From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): # Tomponskij and Ust'-Majskij switched from Vladivostok time to Yakutsk time @@ -2900,39 +2958,6 @@ Zone Europe/Zaporozhye 2:20:40 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 2:00 EU EE%sT -# Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997. -Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 - 2:16 - SMT 1924 May 2 # Simferopol Mean T - 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 - 3:00 - MSK 1941 Nov - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Apr 13 - 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 - 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 - 2:00 - EET 1992 -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched -# from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. -# Shanks (1999) says "date of change uncertain", but implies that it happened -# sometime between the 1994 DST switches. Shanks & Pottenger simply say -# 1994-09-25 03:00, but that can't be right. For now, guess it -# changed in May. - 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May -# From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev. - 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 3:00s - 3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s -# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST. -# Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks. - 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1997 - 3:00 - MSK 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u -# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-17): -# time change at 2:00 (2am) on March 30, 2014 -# http://vz.ru/news/2014/3/17/677464.html -# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-30): -# Simferopol and Sevastopol reportedly changed their central town clocks -# late the previous day, but this appears to have been ceremonial -# and the discrepancies are small enough to not worry about. - 2:00 EU EE%sT 2014 Mar 30 2:00 - 4:00 - MSK # Vatican City # See Europe/Rome. -- 1.9.1