I have a further update for Europe/Kiev to report. http://www.uazakon.com/documents/date_8u/pg_grcasa.htm Google translation: --- begin CABINET OF MINISTERS OF UKRAINE REGULATION A N O V A on March 20, 1992 N 139 Kyiv (Decree repealed under Resolution CM N 509 ( 509 -96 -P) on 13.05.96 ) On the order of computation time in Ukraine In pursuance of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of March 6, 1992 "On introduction in Ukraine Daylight Savings Time" ( 2176-12 ), the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decrees t a n o l at i is : 1. Approve in Ukraine following the procedure of calculation time : the second time zone ( Kyiv time) on transfer clockwise annually on the last Sunday in March at 2 pm 1 hour ahead in the last week of September at 3:00 1 an hour ago . 2. Establish that: movement by rail, water, air and intercity transport of general use , as well as work long-distance telephone and telegraph lines in the Ukraine at the Moscow time ; calculating ship time at sea conducted by international system time zone . When staying vehicles on roads and ports of other countries use the time that is set there . 3. Oblige ministries and departments of Ukraine , the Council Ministers of the Republic of Crimea, Executive Committee, Kyiv and Sevastopol municipal executive committees to ensure timely development and interventions to move to the calculation of time in order established by this Resolution. 4. To instruct the State Standard of Ukraine : to monitor compliance with established procedure computation time and the organization of work on the evaluation of its effectiveness; informed in advance of the population through the media information on daylight saving time and its abolition. 5. To recognize as invalid: Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on June 18, 1990 N 134 "On the calculation of time shift in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic" (CL SSR , 1990 , N 6, p. 38); Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on September 21, 1990 N 272 "On the calculation of time from 30 September 1990" (CL USSR, 1990, N 9 , p. 53); Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on September 25, 1991 N 225 ( 225 -91 -P) "On the computation time of the September 29, 1991 at territory of Ukraine "( Ukraine FY 1991 , N 10, art. 93). ---- end quote This means that from 1992 on, Ukraine had DST with begin time at 02:00 am, on last SUnday in March, and end time 03:00 am, last Sunday in September. The Google translation above saying '2 pm' is most likely an error. The Urkainian original says 2 годині which mean 2 o'clock. TZ database holds E-Eur rules for 1992 - 1995, which has changes at midnight local time. This is clearly wrong. Introduction of EU-Rules in 1996 -------------------------------- The introduction of EU rules seems to have happened in 1996, not in 1995 as TZ database claims. http://search.ligazakon.ua/l_doc2.nsf/link1/KP960509.html Google translation ----- begin quote CABINET OF MINISTERS OF UKRAINE RESOLUTION on May 13, 1996 N 509 Kyiv On the order of computation time on the territory of Ukraine Given the calculation time operating in Europe since 1996 , the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine resolves: 1. To introduce in Ukraine a method of calculating the time: the second time zone ( Kyiv time) the transfer year -clockwise on the last Sunday of March at 3 pm for 1 hour forward on the last Sunday of October at 4:00 1 hour ago. 2. Establish that: movement by rail, water, air and long-distance transport of general use and operation of long-distance telephone and telegraph communications in Ukraine is carried out by the Moscow time ; calculating ship time at sea conducted by the international system of time zones. When staying vehicles on roads and ports of other countries use the time that is set there . 3. Oblige ministries and departments of Ukraine , the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, regional, Kyiv and Sevastopol city state administrations to ensure timely develop and introduce measures to transition to the calculation of time specified by this Resolution. 4. To direct the State Commission alone time and standard frequency Ukraine : to monitor compliance with the established procedure of calculation time and the organization of work to assess its effectiveness; informed in advance of the population through the media of daylight saving time and its abolition. 5. To recognize as having repealed , Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 20 March , 1992 N 139 " On the Procedure for the Calculation of Time in Ukraine " ( Ukraine FY 1992 , N 4 , p. 93). ---------- end quote Note that §5 refers to the earlier quote from 1992, repealing it. This implies that no other regulations had been issued in between. As this cabinet decision is from May 1996, it seems likely that the transition in March 1996, which predates it, was still at 2:00 am and not at 3:00 as would have been under EU rules. This is why I have set the change to EU rules into May 1996, so that the change in March is stil covered by the Ukraine rule. The next change in October 1996 happened under EU rules. I propose the following zone info: Rule Ukraine 1992 1996 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S Rule Ukraine 1992 1995 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880 2:02:04 - KMT 1924 May 2 # KievMTime 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 20 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Nov 6 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 Jul 1 2:00 2:00 1:00 EEDT 1991 Sep 29 3:00 2:00 Ukraine EE%sT 1996 May 2:00 EU EE%sT TZ database holds three other zones for Ukraine, Zone Europe/Uzhgorod the most western part, bordering Slovakia, Hungary, Romania Zone Europe/Zaporozhye the most eastern part Zone Europe/Zaporozhye Crimea peninsula I have not yet worked out the consequences for these three zones, as we (me and my US colleague David Cochrane) are still trying to get more information upon these local deviations from Kiev rules. On 28.02.14 16:31, Alois Treindl wrote:
Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880 2:02:04 - KMT 1924 May 2 # KievMTime 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 20 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Nov 6 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 Jul 1 2:00 2:00 1:00 EEDT 1991 Sep 29 3:00 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 2:00 EU EE%sT