My apologies if this is not the correct way to notify this change [please let me know what I should have done]. In 2010 President Medvedev passed an act to introduce permanent Summer Time in Russia, effective March 2011 [according to the normal DST switching rules]. In 2014 this act was repealed, so that the normal DST switch back to standard time occurred on the last Sunday in October 2014. The new act eliminates future DST switching. The new act applies to all Russian time zones. This means that Moscow Time is now fixed at 3 hours ahead of UTC. I looked on iana.org and the last released version of tzdata is tzdata2014i but it still contains the Medvedev act rules and not the state of affairs since Oct 26, 2014. Thanks Carl
Carl Rigg wrote:
I looked on iana.org and the last released version of tzdata is tzdata2014i but it still contains the Medvedev act rules and not the state of affairs since Oct 26, 2014.
The tz database needs the Medvedev act rules, because it keeps track of all time stamps back to at least 1970. The database was updated in August to handle the recent Russian changes. Please see the thread containing this email: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021828.html
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 17:42, Carl Rigg wrote:
I looked on iana.org and the last released version of tzdata is tzdata2014i but it still contains the Medvedev act rules and not the state of affairs since Oct 26, 2014.
I think the confusion comes from the fact that the rules section does not include a change because by longstanding policy "permanent summer time" and "standard time" are both regarded as standard time by the tzdata project, so the change is reflected as an offset change from 4:00 to 3:00 under Europe/Moscow (and other Russian zones), and not a rule change under Russia.
This seems to come up a lot recently. Maybe just a short comment in the file would mitigate future inquiries? :) -----Original Message----- From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of random832@fastmail.us Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 05:30 AM To: tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] Russian time zone rules change On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 17:42, Carl Rigg wrote:
I looked on iana.org and the last released version of tzdata is tzdata2014i but it still contains the Medvedev act rules and not the state of affairs since Oct 26, 2014.
I think the confusion comes from the fact that the rules section does not include a change because by longstanding policy "permanent summer time" and "standard time" are both regarded as standard time by the tzdata project, so the change is reflected as an offset change from 4:00 to 3:00 under Europe/Moscow (and other Russian zones), and not a rule change under Russia.
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