Nagorno-Karabakh abolishing Daylight Saving Time
According to news Nagorno-Karabakh (de facto independent republic, disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan) is abolishing Daylight Saving Time. about Nagorno-Karabakh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Republic (in Russian) Nagorno-Karabakh rejects daylight saving time. http://nbnews.com.ua/news/34302/ http://www.kavkaz-uzel.ru/articles/203632/ some translation from Russian: According to the Department of Information and Public Relations of the government of Nagorno-Karabakh, the government void decision "On a new procedure for the calculation time of the Nagorno-Karabakh" (October 25, 1996), which used to regulate transition to DST or (brief) http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_nagorno-karabakh01.html P.S. Armenia will not observe DST in 2012 and Azerbaijan begins DST on March 25, 2012. Alexander Krivenyshev- WorldTimeZone.com http://www.worldtimezone.com
On 24.03.2012 19:06, Alexander Krivenyshev wrote:
According to news Nagorno-Karabakh (de facto independent republic, disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan) is abolishing Daylight Saving Time. We have unsuccessfully tried to find out if the new DST rule for Nagorno-Karabakh already applies to 2012, or when it comes into effect. Does anyone know more about this?
One hotel we called said that local time there was like UTC+5 (DST applied) - so either they have not been informed correctly, or the law is not applied yet. Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com
Steffen Thorsen <thorsen <at> timeanddate.com> writes:
On 24.03.2012 19:06, Alexander Krivenyshev wrote:
According to news Nagorno-Karabakh (de facto independent republic, disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan) is abolishing Daylight Saving Time. We have unsuccessfully tried to find out if the new DST rule for Nagorno-Karabakh already applies to 2012, or when it comes into effect. Does anyone know more about this?
One hotel we called said that local time there was like UTC+5 (DST applied) - so either they have not been informed correctly, or the law is not applied yet.
Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com
We have to wait and see for more info. For example, although Armenia government cancelled DST this year but it seems nobody (or not many) knows anything about it ??? here is blog from Armenia: Google and Ubuntu rule in Armenia or the chaos of the summer time: http://blognews.am/rus/news/4185/google-и-ubuntu-рулят-в-армении-или-хаос-с- летним-временем.html And here's another news that Nagorno-Karabakh rejects move to "summer" time (in russian): http://newsarmenia.ru/karabah/20120323/42631342.html http://www.100storon.ru/default/20120323/252759084.html Alexander Krivenyshev- WorldTimeZone.com http://www.worldtimezone.com
Alexander Krivenyshev <worldtimezone@yahoo.com> writes:
For example, although Armenia government cancelled DST this year but it seems nobody (or not many) knows anything about it ???
here is blog from Armenia: Google and Ubuntu rule in Armenia or the chaos of the summer time: http://blognews.am/rus/news/4185/google-и-ubuntu-рулят-в-армении-или-хаос-с- летним-временем.html
(I'm not native speaker of Russian, and I may have missed some nuance. Correct me if I'm wrong.) The blog reads:
В Армении правительство отказалось от перехода на летнее время [...] Так вот - как оказалось - об этом никто не был в курсе - практически. Ночью в 2 часа неожиданно все дивайсы начали идти на час вперед. Практически все - не считая прибытых к стене часов.
Or:
Government of Armenia canceled the transition to Summer Time. [...] So, as it turned out, practically nobody knew about it. At 2 in the morning, all devices unexpectedly moved an hour ahead. Practically all of them -- except for clocks on walls."
Meaning, in my opinion, that those devices didn't get updated, and are now on Summer time, an hour ahead of people's wall clock times. He mentions Linux distributions as an exception from this rule, citing Ubuntu in particular; on my side, I can confirm that updates were pushed to all supported releases of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Further down he explicitly mentions:
Windows - тупо меняет время
Or:
Windows - stupidly changes time
In my opinion, this supports the theory that the time change was not expected by people, but was in fact delivered by computers. Thanks, PM
Petr Machata <pmachata <at> redhat.com> writes:
Alexander Krivenyshev <worldtimezone <at> yahoo.com> writes:
For example, although Armenia government cancelled DST this year but it seems nobody (or not many) knows anything about it ???
here is blog from Armenia: Google and Ubuntu rule in Armenia or the chaos of the summer time: http://blognews.am/rus/news/4185/google-и-ubuntu-рулят-в-армении-или-хаос-с- летним-временем.html
(I'm not native speaker of Russian, and I may have missed some nuance. Correct me if I'm wrong.)
The blog reads:
В Армении правительство отказалось от перехода на летнее время [...] Так вот - как оказалось - об этом никто не был в курсе - практически. Ночью в 2 часа неожиданно все дивайсы начали идти на час вперед. Практически все - не считая прибытых к стене часов.
Or:
Government of Armenia canceled the transition to Summer Time. [...] So, as it turned out, practically nobody knew about it. At 2 in the morning, all devices unexpectedly moved an hour ahead. Practically all of them -- except for clocks on walls."
Meaning, in my opinion, that those devices didn't get updated, and are now on Summer time, an hour ahead of people's wall clock times. He mentions Linux distributions as an exception from this rule, citing Ubuntu in particular; on my side, I can confirm that updates were pushed to all supported releases of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Further down he explicitly mentions:
Windows - тупо меняет время
Or:
Windows - stupidly changes time
In my opinion, this supports the theory that the time change was not expected by people, but was in fact delivered by computers.
Thanks, PM
Same things have happened in Russia, according to news, http://www.segodnya.ua/news/14351614.html http://www.sostav.ua/news/2012/03/26/51/48068/ "In Russia, the phone switched to daylight saving time, which Medvedev canceled. The problem is most affected by smartphone owners with outdated operating systems." or "In Russia, smart phones and computers automatically switched to "summer time" Despite the cancellation of the transition to "summer time", mobile phones and computers in Russia wrongly switched to "summer time". Alexander Krivenyshev- WorldTimeZone.com http://www.worldtimezone.com
On 26.03.2012 16:07, Alexander Krivenyshev wrote:
Steffen Thorsen<thorsen<at> timeanddate.com> writes:
On 24.03.2012 19:06, Alexander Krivenyshev wrote:
According to news Nagorno-Karabakh (de facto independent republic, disputed between Armenia and Azerbaijan) is abolishing Daylight Saving Time. We have unsuccessfully tried to find out if the new DST rule for Nagorno-Karabakh already applies to 2012, or when it comes into effect. Does anyone know more about this?
One hotel we called said that local time there was like UTC+5 (DST applied) - so either they have not been informed correctly, or the law is not applied yet.
We have to wait and see for more info. We have checked with the local government on the phone now, one of the Prime Minister's advisors confirms that they are currently on standard time, he confirmed the local time (which was like UTC+4) and that they will stay on that through the year. (So the hotel we called the other day were wrong about local time then).
The Government also lists it here: http://www.karabakh.net/?section=info_center/view&news_id=195&lang=en <http://www.karabakh.net/?section=info_center/view&news_id=195&lang=en> So I guess a new Asia/Stepanakert zone is needed, based on Asia/Baku. Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com
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