I'm forwarding thyis message from Ivan Sedychenkov, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. --ado ________________________________________ From: Ivan S. [lizardus.yar@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:40 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Antarctic timezones. Hi! I have information about time in few russian antarctic year-round bases. This is a list for inclusion in to the file "antarctica": # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Antarctica/Bellingshausen 0 - zzz 1968 -3 - BELL # Bellingshausen time Zone Antarctica/Mirny 0 - zzz 1956 7 - MIRN # Mirny time Zone Antarctica/Novolazarevskaya 0 - zzz 1959 0 - NOVO # Novolazarevskaya time Zone Antarctica/Progress 0 - zzz 1989 5 - PRGS # Progress time Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 7 - VOST # Vostok time ================ And this strings are for inclusion in to the file "zone.tab": AQ -621159-0585337 Antarctica/Bellingshausen Bellingshausen Station, King George Island AQ -663320+0930111 Antarctica/Mirny Mirny Station, Davis coast AQ -704634+0114921 Antarctica/Novolazarevskaya Novolazarevskaya Station, Queen Maud Land AQ -692251+0762325 Antarctica/Progress Progress Station, Larsemann Hills AQ -782750+1065013 Antarctica/Vostok Vostok Station, Lake Vostok -- Best regards from Antarctica, Bellingshausen st. Ivan Sedychenkov