>From dbacd2714e5171612ebe97dee23aba0d9deda8f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 11:02:13 -0800 Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] Asia/Chita switches to +0900 in March 2016 * NEWS: Document this. * europe (Asia/Chita): Switch to +0900 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00. (Thanks to Rick McDermid, Matt Johnson, and Steve Jones.) --- NEWS | 3 +++ europe | 9 ++++++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a02cbe9..6b0d8f2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Changes affecting past and future time stamps + Asia/Chita switches from +0800 to +0900 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00. + (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.) + America/Santa_Isabel has been removed, and replaced with a backward compatibility link to America/Tijuana. Its contents were apparently based on a misreading of Mexican legislation. diff --git a/europe b/europe index 788a9b4..6eea558 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -2593,13 +2593,20 @@ Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:05 - LMT 1880 # Note: Effective 2008-03-01, (75) Chita Oblast and (80) Agin-Buryat # Autonomous Okrug merged to form (92, RU-ZAB) Zabaykalsky Krai. +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-01-02): +# [The] time zone in the Trans-Baikal Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai) - +# Asia/Chita [is changing] from UTC+8 to UTC+9. Effective date will +# be March 27, 2016 at 2:00am.... +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/000120151230010 + Zone Asia/Chita 7:33:52 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 8:00 - YAKT 1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time 9:00 Russia YAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 8:00 Russia YAK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 9:00 Russia YAK%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 10:00 - YAKT 2014 Oct 26 2:00s - 8:00 - IRKT + 8:00 - IRKT 2016 Mar 27 2:00 + 9:00 - YAKT # From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): -- 2.5.0