Nov. 5, 2014
10:42 p.m.
My apologies if this is not the correct way to notify this change [please let me know what I should have done]. In 2010 President Medvedev passed an act to introduce permanent Summer Time in Russia, effective March 2011 [according to the normal DST switching rules]. In 2014 this act was repealed, so that the normal DST switch back to standard time occurred on the last Sunday in October 2014. The new act eliminates future DST switching. The new act applies to all Russian time zones. This means that Moscow Time is now fixed at 3 hours ahead of UTC. I looked on iana.org and the last released version of tzdata is tzdata2014i but it still contains the Medvedev act rules and not the state of affairs since Oct 26, 2014. Thanks Carl