For consistency with the other zones to which we've temporarily ascribed "FET", this most recent change should be effected at a regularly scheduled clock change, not at the date of the decree. Since Europe/Chisinau follows EU rules, we should write the final change to Europe/Tiraspol to resemble our original changes to Ukraine (which have since been rendered invalid). The "UNTIL" date for the penultimate line in Europe/Tiraspol should be "2011 Mar lastSun 1:00u", having been the last forward clock change (to year-round UTC+3/FET). In addition, being situated at +4651+2938 would give Tiraspol a pre-1880 LMT offset of 1:58:32. -- Tim Parenti On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 02:46, Petr Machata <pmachata@redhat.com> wrote:
Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> writes:
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:21:42 -0700 From: Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com> Message-ID: <CAH+RLGFyeEeYnvzfiy9xw9tg4P+9g=
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| Did you have in mind winter (or standard) time starting at the end of | October in the northern hemisphere? Or summer time (not?) ending?
As you guessed, I got it backwards - I originally intended to ask if the intent was to remain on (effectively) summer time, or to revert to the previous standard time, and just not resume summer time next year - but
then
I thought the question was moot as it was just summer time not turning on.
I think you got it right the first time around.
The heading reads: "Pridnestrovie cancelled the transition to Winter Time". The article goes on to describe the reasons for the cancellation, and that the decree was signed on October 10 and will enter into force seven days after it's published. Whether that means Oct 17 they don't write.
Moldova, they go on to explain, will enter Winter Time as usual, on the last Sunday of October. That's how Pridnestrovie has done it in the past, too.
So my guess is that the zone will be like Chisinau, but without the DST transition that was supposed to occur at the end of October. As to the abbreviation, I'll venture a guess that they are doing this to sync with Ukraine, and that the abbreviation should correspondingly be EFT. (Though I'm on the LST side of the debate.)
I'll attach a proposed patch (I didn't change the 1880 offset).
Hope this helps, PM