Re: [tz] Belarus is listed in MSK timezone

On 04/01/2015 01:09 PM, Tim Parenti wrote:

I cannot think of another case where we have applied the designation of a neighboring country to a region that has not itself changed its timekeeping rules.

The situation here is not unprecedented. The tz database used MSK/MSD for Europe/Minsk at UTC+3/4 even after Belarus's independence from the Soviet Union in July 1990. And this continued a longstanding practice of using MSK/MSD to denote Minsk time at UTC+3/4, going all the way back to 1930. The conservative approach here is to continue to use the same abbreviation.