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