Reported to me by Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net> Diff follows the article below (hopefully I got it right). - todd http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=983466&PageNum=0 Georgia abandoning Soviet-era decree time, back to zonal time 27.06.2004, 02.36 TBILISI, June 27 (Itar-Tass) - Georgia is abandoning the Soviet-era special, or decreed, time and is switching back to its zonal time as of Sunday, June 27. In practical terms, this means that it will now have the same time as Russias Moscow zone and will be three hours ahead of London instead of the former four hours, and two hours ahead of Paris and Berlin instead of the former three. The reverting to the zonal time follows a recent decree by President Mikhail Saakashvili saying the decision on it was taken with due regard of Georgias geographic position, the European integration process, and proposals by the national department for standards and hydrometeorology. The so-called decreed time took effect all across the former USSR from Kamchatka through to Belarus and from the Artic Islands through to southern Turkmenistan June 16, 1930. The measure was aimed at a better us of daylight. Unlike daylight saving time (DST), the decreed time did not shift and was pegged on the principle of zonal time plus an hour round the year. As of 1981, however, the DST was also introduced in the USSR, which meant that from April through October the formula would look like the zonal time plus one hour of the decreed time plus one hour of the DST. Most countries of the former USSR dropped the decreed timed by now and reverted to their zonal time. Russia is one of a few exceptions. Index: asia =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/asia,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -r1.18 asia --- asia 28 Jun 2004 13:43:32 -0000 1.18 +++ asia 28 Jun 2004 14:02:18 -0000 @@ -336,6 +336,10 @@ # Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia # will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, # President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. +# +# From Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net> (2004-060-27) +# Georgia has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow today. +# It is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (instead of five). # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time @@ -346,7 +350,8 @@ 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun - 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT + 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 26 + 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT # East Timor