German Iofis is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. (Note that "E-EurAsia" is used even in the most recent version of the "asia" file posted today.) --ado -----Original Message----- From: German.Iofis@elsi.kz [mailto:German.Iofis@elsi.kz] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 2:04 AM To: 'tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov' Subject: timezone Good day! When I`m setting timezone for Kazakhstan, I`m use file asia under Solaris 8 04/01 from dir: /usr/share/lib/timezone/src. This file not correct in part where discribed lower: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 5:00 - ALMT 1957 Mar # Alma-Ata Time 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 5:00 1:00 ALMST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 5:00 - ALMT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 6:00 E-EurAsia ALM%sT Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - AKT 1957 Mar # Aktyubinsk Time 5:00 RussiaAsia AK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 4:00 1:00 AKTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtobe Time 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Aktau 4:00 - SHET 1957 Mar # Fort Shevchenko Time 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 4:00 1:00 AQTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtau Time 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT 1995 Sep lastSun 4:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT I`m change E-EurAsia to RussiaAsia and now all right! See correct file: <<asia>> Best regards! ======================================= German Iofis, Chief Sun/Solaris division ELSI Tech Co., 13, Shevchenko St., Almaty, 480100, Kazakhstan Tel. 7-3272-919227 Fax. 7-3272-915979