The four bills have been signed into law by the president. This confirms the changes for Sakhalin Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Altai Republic and Altai Krai. No word yet on Magadan. Links: Transbaikal (Zabaykalsky Krai) http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201512300107 http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51105 http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=840321-6 Astrakhan Oblast http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201602150056 http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51338 http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=862646-6 Sakhalin Oblast http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090044 http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51468 http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=888645-6 Ulyanovsk Oblast http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090051 http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51474 http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=920582-6 Altai Republic http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090043 http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51460 http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=935532-6 Altai Krai http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090038 http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51478 http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=944348-6 ________________________________________ From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 8:51 AM To: Matt Johnson; Time zone mailing list Subject: Re: [tz] Russian Legislation Status Thanks for the heads-up. On 03/02/2016 04:40 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:

Transbaikal and Astrakhan have both been signed into law by the president and published.

Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk, Altai Republic, and Altai Krai have all been approved by both legislative bodies, and are awaiting signature by the president.

We have all the above in our current experimental version on GitHub <https://github.com/eggert/tz>.

Magadan has no approvals yet. It is on the agenda for discussion for March 15th, per the meeting notices published athttp://asozd2.duma.gov.ru It seems unlikely to me that it will pass with a March 27th effective date as currently written, but that's just my opinion.

It is a dicey situation. Also, suppose President Putin rejects the bills for Sakhalin etc.? Suppose they languish on his desk until late this month? It's not realistic to expect all the systems in the world to update their time zone tables on such short notice. Does anyone on this list know President Putin well enough to bring the matter up? :-)

Another two bills were found for the Tomsk region. One has a date of March 8th, the other has a date of May 29th. I'm not quite sure of the difference between the two, but neither have approvals yet or are on the agenda.

These don't seem likely, but one never knows....

Deborah Goldsmith wrote:

Are there any other issues blocking an IANA release for this?

The github version of Novosibirsk appears to be wrong for historical data (right for Tomsk, wrong for Novosibirsk? not clear). There are other historical errors. I haven't had free cycles to fix this, so I'm inclined to back out the Novosibirsk change for now and then push out a new release in the next couple of working days. We can worry about Russian historical data later.

11.03.2016 в 10:09:19 -0800 Paul Eggert написал:

Deborah Goldsmith wrote:

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Are there any other issues blocking an IANA release for this?

The github version of Novosibirsk appears to be wrong for historical data (right for Tomsk, wrong for Novosibirsk? not clear).

Wrong for both. Also, zone{1970,}.tab contain post-2016-03-27 offsets from Moscow for Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Ulyanovsk and Asia/Barnaul but pre-2016-03-27 ones for Asia/Chita and Asia/Sakhalin.

On 03/12/2016 11:06 AM, Tim Parenti wrote:

Proposed patch attached; this also cinches up the coverage comments a bit. Thanks, I installed that on GitHub.

17.03.2016 в 16:01:13 +0000 Matt Johnson написал:

An update on Magadan.

The bill has had its second reading in the State Duma,

First reading. The bill is currently proposed to be approved in both the second and the third readings on 2016-03-22. It might be in time to be approved by the Federation Council on 2016-03-23.

and has been amended to have an effective date of April 24th 2016 at 2:00 AM local time.

The bill's status page: http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=948300-6

It still needs its third reading in the state Duma, passage in the Federation Council, then signing by the President.

Additionaly, Council of the State Duma recently instructed healthcare committee to speed up preparations on the Tomsk bills: http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1003422-6 http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1006865-6

18.03.2016 в 13:38:12 -0700 Paul Eggert написал:

In this version, only a few minor pre-1992 changes are visible to users. Although I expect that we will need new zones Europe/Kirov and Asia/Tomsk (as their post-1970 disagreements with existing zones seem to be supported well enough), for now I'm commenting out these new zones as I haven't had time to look into rumors about their pre-1990 data yet.

I believe that in Asia/Tomsk lines # 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P. # 6:00 Russia +06/+07 2002 May 1 3:00 # 7:00 Russia +07/+08 2014 Oct 26 2:00s should be # 7:00 Russia +07/+08 2002 May 1 3:00 # 6:00 Russia +06/+07 2011 Mar 27 2:00s # 7:00 - +07 2014 Oct 26 2:00s This is supported by http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102075743 (fifth time belt beeing UTC+5+1(decree time) / UTC+5+1(decree time)+1(summer time)), "Tomsk is still 4 hours ahead of Moscow" 1994 comment and removed 2006 comment about 1993 change beeing a guess. Note that time belts (numbered from 2 (Moscow) to 12 according to their GMT/UTC offset and having too many exceptions like regions formally belonging to one belt but using time from another) were replaced with time zones in 2011 with different numberings (there was a 2-hour gap between second and third zones in 2011-2014).

17.03.2016 в 23:41:07 +0400 Stepan Golosunov написал:

Additionaly, Council of the State Duma recently instructed healthcare committee to speed up preparations on the Tomsk bills:

http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1003422-6

That bill (splitting Tomsk oblast between two time zones) was rejected today.

http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1006865-6

This bill was approved in the first reading today. It moves Tomsk oblast from UTC+6 to UTC+7 and is supposed to come into effect on 2016-05-29 at 2:00. The bill needs to be approved in the second and the third readings by the State Duma, approved by the Federation Council, signed by the President and published to become a law. Minor changes in the text are to be expected before the second reading (references need to be updated to account for the recent changes). Judging by the ultra-short one-day amendments period, recent similar laws, the State Duma schedule (http://www.duma.gov.ru/legislative/planning/day-shedule/por_vesna_2016/) and the Federation Council schedule (http://council.gov.ru/activity/meetings/schedule/63303) I speculate that the final text of the bill will be proposed tomorrow, the bill will be approved in the second and the third readings on Friday, approved by the Federation Council on 2016-04-20, signed by the President and published as a law around 2016-04-26.