>From 8edb6a4ab07709a198521d822b1ff54d1173a7b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 19:22:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Subtract 2 hours from Minsk's 1992 spring-forward Problem reported by Stepan Golosunov in: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-July/023840.html * NEWS: Document this. * europe (Europe/Minsk): Omit incorrect special cases for fall 1991 and for 1992. Spring 1992 was off by two hours; the others are now redundant entries given other changes to the Russia rules. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ europe | 11 ++++++++--- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fd2aefc..d160925 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones. + Changes affecting past time stamps + + Europe/Minsk's 1992-03-29 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 not 00:00. + (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) + Release 2016e - 2016-06-14 08:46:16 -0700 diff --git a/europe b/europe index bf509ed..e81634e 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -755,6 +755,14 @@ Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:21 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 EU CE%sT # Belarus +# +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-07-02): +# http://www.lawbelarus.com/repub/sub30/texf9611.htm +# (Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from +# 1992-03-25 No. 157) ... says clocks were to be moved forward at 2:00 +# on last Sunday of March and backward at 3:00 on last Sunday of September +# (the same as previous USSR and contemporary Russian regulations). +# # From Yauhen Kharuzhy (2011-09-16): # By latest Belarus government act Europe/Minsk timezone was changed to # GMT+3 without DST (was GMT+2 with DST). @@ -778,9 +786,6 @@ Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul 3 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3:00 - MSK 1991 Mar 31 2:00s - 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s - 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 29 0:00s - 2:00 1:00 EEST 1992 Sep 27 0:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3:00 - FET 2014 Oct 26 1:00s 3:00 - MSK -- 2.5.5