The law was approved by the Federation Council on March 30th, and signed by the President today, April 5th. http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51656 http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201604050038 http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=948300-6 This affects Asia/Magadan, with the expected April 24th date. -Matt ________________________________________ From: tz-bounces@iana.org <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 11:27 PM To: Alexander Krivenyshev; Time zone mailing list Subject: Re: [tz] Magadan (Russia) may change it time zone on April 24, 2016 Alexander Krivenyshev wrote:
as of March 23, 2016 passed its 3rd reading by the State Duma
and if approved by the Federation Council, will take into effect as the Federal Law on April 24, 2016 at at 2 o'clock 00 minutes.
Thanks for the info. At this point I guess the Magadan change is more likely than not, so I installed the attached patch into the experimental tzdata version on GitHub.