Recently I was
checking the timezone map from Eric Muller (Adobe) and came to the conclusion
that he had the Kostanai (or Kustanai) area as part of the Qyzylorda time zone
although they are not even adjacent, but still on comparatively the same
longitude. The area of Kostanai I assumed was part of the main area of
Kazakhstan represented by Asia/Almaty. I am not sure where Eric got his
information from, but the story doesn't end here.
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Thu Apr 17, 2008
4:14 pm Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:14 pm
ZET Post: Temporary
amendments to the ZET
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Help
solve the dilemma with the definition of a temporary correction. I was born in
Kostanai area in November 1976.
Some astrological programs, including ZET 8,
provide a temporary amendment +4 GMT. At the same time, Moscow is +3 GMT.
This means that the difference with Moscow entire 1 hour. But it never was.
The difference has always been 2 hours. And parents attest to the fact that
the difference with Moscow has always been 2 hours.
The program ZET 8 geo
gives a sharp change of a temporary amendment to a very long period:
01 Jan
0001 00:00 LMT +00:00:00 01 Jan 0001 00:00 LMT +00:00:00
02 May 1924 00:00
+04:00:00 02 May 1924 00:00 +04:00:00
21 Jun 1930 00:00 +05:00:00 21 Jun
1930 00:00 +05:00:00
01 Dec 1956 00:00 +04:00:00 01 Dec 1956 00:00 +04:00:00
01 Apr 1981 00:00 +05:00:00 01 Apr 1981 00:00 +05:00:00
In fact this change
temporary amendment in 1956 is due to the change of time zones. I can not find
any information about the change of time zones in 1956, although the time change
occurred not only in the Kostanai region.
This tool, please, if anyone has
information about this change of temporary amendments of 1956, which legislation
has been done? Even familiar to consultants not able to answer that question. Do
not mistake that caused even if Spravochnikov coordinates of the first edition
of Cities and temporary amendments and continually reissued by different authors
... Let us find the truth in this matter, as he stubbornly insist that the
time of my birth at +1 GMT differs from the time in the program and is +5 GMT. I
think if I would have the rights to many "go" horoscopes ... But it is still "a
friend of Plato me, but the truth is more expensive ..."
I guess you can't expect miracles from an automated
translation. What I understand from the email is that this person claims to have
been born in Kostanai in 1976 and that time there since has "always" been
GMT+5 or rather Moscow time plus 2 hours. This does not correspond to the
Asia/Almaty time zone but corresponds pretty well with the Asia/Qyzylorda
time zone. The thread is not faultless for instance another person grabs a part
of the World Time Explorer file Historic.txt and concludes that Astana was
on GMT+5 from 1930 to 1991 while in fact the correct number is
GMT+6
I might be exaggerated in assuming this is
authoritative information (yet) but all the same perhaps readers of this mailing
list have more information they can share.
The mixture of Eric's map with the administrative
regions however shows another difference that I can't explain, see the following
map:
The red borders are the time zones of his map. The
black zones are the recent administrative regions, as we can also see on this
wikipedia map of the Kostanai region:
In conclusion if the
Kustanai/Kostanai region has always been on Qyzylorda time, we don't have to do
anything to Kazakhstan timezones but it would be good to document this on the
notes to the Asia/Qyzylorda time zone. Whether the Kustanai region covers
modern-time administrative area or not will then be very important to the maps
of Eric and WTE, but not directly to the tz database. Also I think it would be
good to add all current administrative regions of Kazakhstan to the notes of the
asia file.
Any comments are
welcome.
- Jesper Nørgaard
Welen
