Hello! Moving towards unification with Russia on economical reasons, Republic of Belarus has announced today to cancel daylight saving time rule and don't rewind clocks on last Sunday of October. Here is the news (in Russian): http://gosstandart.gov.by/ru-RU/NewsId.php?UrlRid=550 The decree is N1229 by Belarussian government, dated 2011-09-15, unfortunately, not yet published on pravo.by so I can't reference it. If I'm not mistaken, the change would make Europe/Minsk zone look like: # Belarus # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 1:50 - MMT 1924 May 2 # Minsk Mean Time 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 28 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul 3 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3:00 - MSK 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 29 0:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1992 Sep 27 0:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Sep 15 3:00 - EET -- / Alexander Bokovoy