Teimuraz Abashidze is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Teimuraz Abashidze (IT) [mailto:tabashidze@geocell.com.ge] Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 8:06 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: DST rules change for Georgia Hello tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov, Dear sir! I've posted on bugzilla new bug #172279, and they told me to contact you: You need to discuss this with upstream, i.e. tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov When upstream accepts a change and incorporates it, we'll then update our packages. But as a rule for tzdata we use the timezone data unmodified from upstream. Description of problem: It's not actually a BUG. Government of Georgia (ExUSSR, Caucasia, capital city Tbilisi) decided to NOT CHANGE daylight sayvings time at 30 Sep. night, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT +3:00. Currently http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_GE.aspx shows correct time for us. The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document about it. A sfar as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about swithching to winter time".... I don't know waht can be done, especially knowing, that some years ago our DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month... Maybe it's stupid, but maybe it's possible to create TWO separate time zones for Georgia, one with DST settings, one withought? I could't find a way to disable DST in Linux otherwise... BTW, of course it's not related to Fedora Core or any particular distribution, this problem shoul be common for all of them... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set timezone to Asia/Georgia 2. 3. Actual Results: #date Wed Nov 2 14:56:44 GET 2005 # Expected Results: #date Wed Nov 2 15:56:44 GET 2005 # Best regards, Teimuraz Abashidze Enterprise Network Manager Information Technologies Geocell Ltd. Phone: (995 32) 770100 (ext.7702) Fax: (995 32) 770107 GSM: (995 77) 458001 E-mail: tabashidze@geocell.com.ge --------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, forwarding, copying or use of any of the information is strictly prohibited, and the e-mail should immediately be deleted. GEOCELL makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained in this message and hereby excludes any liability of any kind for the information contained therein or for the information transmission, reception, storage or use of such in any way whatsoever. The opinions expressed in this message belong to sender alone and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of GEOCELL.