Sept. 17, 2011
6:21 p.m.
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011, Tim Parenti wrote:
For the same reason the "KALT" designation was created for Kaliningrad (because +03:00 is not generally equivalent to EET), we should probably use something like "MINT" (or alternatively, since Belarus currently has only one zone, "BYT").
Also, I feel it might be more logical to effect this change on the date of the last clock change, 27 March 2011. Regardless of when the actual decrees were enacted, I doubt the average person in Belarus perceived any "change" in timekeeping on 15 September 2011. Agreed.
We discussed this yesterday with Kirill Shutsemov as well and I also proposed BYT as zone's name. -- / Alexander Bokovoy