Thanks, Oscar. Yes I already tried Shevchenko to no avail, and also Aktau, which exists in astro.com's database, but with a wrong latitude and longitude, in the eas of Kazakhstan. Instead I was lucky to find Saura, which is latitude 44.23 and longitude 50.83, pretty close to Aqtau. It turned out to have the same time as Aqtobe (Akt'ubinsk) at least until 1981. More important is to determine if we will comply with this in the tz database or not, and why (or why not)? Regards, - Jesper -----Original Message----- From: Oscar van Vlijmen [mailto:ovv@hetnet.nl] Sent: Jueves, 14 de Septiembre de 2006 8:27 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Kazakhstan question
From: Jesper Norgaard Welen
Using astro.com I found some interesting information. ... ... I couldn't find the location Aqtau, perhaps a spelling problem.
Already tried Shevchenko? That was the former name of the capital of the Mangistau Oblast. The capital is now known as Aqtau, outside Kazakhstan also known as Aktau.