Parts of Georgia and Ukraine observing Moscow time
Hello, Sources indicate that Abkhazia has observed Moscow time since at least 2010:https://web.archive.org/web/20100725215624/http://abkhazia.travel:80/abkhazi... It's possible that South Ossetia has done the same. Both regions definitely changed to UTC+3 along with Moscow in 2014, and have remained in that time zone since then:https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/251354/ In Ukraine, the portions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions administered by separatists have observed Moscow time since 2014:https://tass.com/world/756540 In 2022, the portions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions administered by Russia also changed to Moscow time:https://tass.com/society/1568025https://tass.com/society/1605439 I understand that these changes are controversial, but the database does show Crimea in Moscow time since 2014, even though it remains under country code UA in file zone.tab. So I suppose that these other regions should be added as well, under codes GE and UA but showing their time zones observed in practice. Regards,David
On 2024-07-21 12:44, Heitor David Pinto via tz wrote:
I understand that these changes are controversial, but the database does show Crimea in Moscow time since 2014, even though it remains under country code UA in file zone.tab. So I suppose that these other regions should be added as well
As this falls under the "war or insurrection" clause of the timezone identifiers guideline <https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#naming>, let's leave things be. We lack resources to track these conflicts' boundary changes, and changes to local timekeeping rules are generally poorly documented in these cases. As a practical matter, belligerents can use TZ='Europe/Moscow', TZ='Europe/Kyiv', or TZ='Asia/Tbilisi', and this should be good enough.
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