On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:

Hi,

a local news site got a comment from PR service of Belarussian National Standardization Committee that government is currently deciding on the time zone change to follow Russia. The decision is not yet made and I was unable to find any other source or reference at any governmental site, which is, unfortunately, typical.

http://news.tut.by/society/416667.html (in Russian) Finally, Belarussian government decided against changing to winter time. It looks like a transport lobby was effective this time and convinced government that changing time zone is not going to be cost-effective.

Sources (in Russian) all cite PR service of Council of Ministers: http://naviny.by/rubrics/society/2014/10/08/ic_news_116_446011/ http://ria.ru/world/20141008/1027480997.html http://news.tut.by/society/418828.html -- / Alexander Bokovoy

Alexander Bokovoy wrote:

Finally, Belarussian government decided against changing to winter time.

Thanks for the heads-up. Although Belarus isn't changing its clocks, it looks like we should change its time zone abbreviation. Currently it's FET (Further-eastern Europe Time), an abbreviation we invented in 2011. After the fall changeover Belarus and Moscow will be using the same time, so it would make sense to change Belarus's abbreviation back to MSK, its more-traditional value. A proposed patch is attached.

On 9 Oct 2014 02:41, Paul Eggert wrote:

Although Belarus isn't changing its clocks, it looks like we should change its time zone abbreviation. Currently it's FET (Further-eastern Europe Time), an abbreviation we invented in 2011. After the fall changeover Belarus and Moscow will be using the same time, so it would make sense to change Belarus's abbreviation back to MSK, its more-traditional value. A proposed patch is attached.

Sounds reasonable. A proposed further patch documenting the historical use of FET is attached. -- Tim Parenti

It doesn't appear you've pushed your own initial patch, though... -- Tim Parenti On 9 October 2014 16:19, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

Thanks, I pushed that into the experimental github version.