Hi ! It says: There is an official decision to use Moscow time in Samara region http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/article/1991161.html (in Russian) But there is a petition against this decision, and they hope to undo it during the next summer->winter switch: "По мнению члена штаба "Самарское время", депутата губернской думы Михаила Матвеева, если количество подписей под петицией об отмене московского времени будет увеличиваться, то осенью у Самары есть шанс вернуть самарское время". But it's purely theoretical: usually Russian rulers don't care about the people's petitions. According to this http://www.svobodanews.ru/archive/ru_news_zone/20100328/17/17.html?id=199555... the Udmurtia region is now using Moscow time as well (Europe/Samara was in use in exactly two regions: Samara and Udmurtia). This link says "the amount of time zones in Russia is reduced from 11 to 9". I think you can assume, that Samara and Kamchatka zones are not existing any more. BR Ilya Dogolazky Maemo Devices Nokia ext Gary Lasker wrote:

Hello!

I've been getting started maintaining tzdata for Ubuntu, and I wanted to check in with the list regarding an issue reported by an Ubuntu user in the following bug report (please refer to comment #16 posted by Guria:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/tzdata/+bug/540295

The comment from Guria is as follows:

"Just looked at timezones more precisely. Unfortunately changes are wrong. In changed tz's was set only summer time, but winter time stays unchanged. This timezones doesn't exists already in fact. Europe/Samara is now exactly equal Europe/Moscow, Asia/Kamchatka is Asia/Magadan. Follow next link for details: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/russia/time-zones/index.htm Also, please don't forget to provide this info to upstream or other distributions."

I'd appreciate it very much if somebody could review this statement to determine what, if any, action may be required.

Thank you very much and please email me if there's anything further I can provide. I'll be following responses on-list.

Thanks again and best regards, Gary Lasker