Guy Harris wrote:
It looks as if there's no daylight savings time, so only one abbreviation is necessary.
Oops, no, it had DST from 1991 to 2014,
to 2011. DST was abolished by President Medvedev in 2011.
and flipped between time zones, so multiple abbreviations are necessary.
True. I am not sure however whether we were really in the Omsk or in the Krasnoyarsk timezone at a given time e.g. in 1995.
Do you have enough of a consensus that {OMST, OMS{S,D}T, KRAT} are something we can go with as "not inventions of the tzdb maintainers"?
I think the OMST and KRAT abbreviations have a long history dating back 10 years or more. Is there a VCS repository for the timezone data somewhere so that we could look it up? This should give them some credit. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru