On 07/06/2013 04:11 PM, Trevor North wrote:
Note that an Oracle Support document (reference *Russia abandons DST in 2011 - Impact on Oracle RDBMS [ID 1335999.1])* relating to the change in Russia includes the following information
Russian State Duma passed the third reading of the bill 509727-5 "On the Calculation of Time" (in Russia) and adopted a law abolishing the transition to daylight saving time. The old rule was to move back on last Sunday of October (30 October 2011) *The Russian timezones will stay on the "summertime".* For Questions/official statements about the DST change itself, please contact the Russian Government
there is one actual factual error in my note, "adopted a law abolishing the transition *to* daylight saving time." should be "adopted a law abolishing the transition *from* daylight saving time." and "*The Russian timezones will stay on the "summertime". *might be better worded as*"**The Russian timezones will stay on the same time as in the summer".* I'll update this on monday aldo it's rather old news these days and the note is archived
I think this is contrary to Mr Olsons assertion that abolishing now means standard.
My DST notes intention is to simply /reflect/ the iana changes and are not meant to be authoritative , It is documented Oracle uses the IANA database as source, so whatever is in there is for Oracle "authoritative" regarding TZ's Regards, Gunther