Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

Alain Mouette wrote:

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May a suggest that you publish somewhere in the Docs the RegEx to correctly test

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the Region String?

Thanks, good suggestion. Proposed patch attached.

Attachment (0001-NEWS-Theory-Clear-up-descriptions-of-tzdata- abbrevia.patch): text/x-diff, 2872 bytes

Just to reconfirm, today Feb 15, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law of 15.02.2016 number 27-FZ(27-ФЗ) On Amendments to Article 5 of the Federal Law "On the Calculation of Time" for the Astrakhan Oblast. (On February 10, 2016 Astrakhan Oblast got approval by the Federation Council). Official document of the Federal Law 27-ФЗ can be found at: (in Russian) http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/GetFile/0001201602150056?type=pdf or on worldtimezone site: http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia-2016-02-10.html Alexander Krivenyshev http://www.worldtimezone.com