On Sun, 07 Jul 2013, Robert Elz wrote:
| I think this is contrary to Mr Olsons assertion that abolishing now means | standard.
I think you misread what ado intended to say. I believe his intent was that the new timezone for Russia (an offset from UTC which used to be its Summertime) can now be considered as standard time for Russia (or standard times, as there are still multiple zones right?) rather than being considered summer time.
I think that the question we need to answer is: should the Russian time zones now have the "isdst" flag permanently set to 0 (for standard time), or permanently set to 1 (for daylight savings time)? I don't know what should be the case, but currently the Russian time zones have isdst=0. According to the output from "zdump -v Europe/Moscow", the last transition was from {isdst=0, gmtoff=10800} to {isdst=0, tzoff=14400}, on 27 Mar 2011. This transition corresponds to a one-hour jump in standard time, without either entering or leaving daylight savings time. Obviously, the Russian time zones should also have the correct offset from UTC, and I believe that they are correct in that regard. --apb (Alan Barrett)