Russia autumn 1996 DST patch

Paul Eggert eggert at twinsun.com
Sun Sep 29 19:31:45 UTC 1996


Thanks for the fix for Russia.  Here is a patch to the latest tz data.
For now, I'll assume that Crimea, Kazakhstan, and Kirgizstan stay in
sync with Russia; so this patch fixes `asia', too.  (It also corrects
the spelling of your name in some older comments; sorry about that.)

By the way, for Ukraine, Itar-Tass <URL:http://www.itar-tass.com/tassnews.htm>
(1996-09-29) reports:

	09-18 00:43 Crimea ponders over problem of time zone.
	09-12 16:48 Ukraine extends summer time for economic benefits.

For now I'll assume that this means Crimea's clocks continue to match
Moscow's exactly; and that Ukraine's fall switch is now at the end of
October.  These assumptions don't require any further changes to the
tz tables.

===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/europe,v
retrieving revision 1996.11
retrieving revision 1996.11.1.1
diff -c -r1996.11 -r1996.11.1.1
*** europe	1996/09/08 20:06:17	1996.11
--- europe	1996/09/29 19:22:47	1996.11.1.1
***************
*** 836,850 ****
  Rule	Russia	1919	only	-	Aug	16	 0:00	0	-
  Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Feb	14	23:00	1:00	S
  # Shanks gives 1921 Mar 21 for the following transition.
! # From Andrew A. Chernov <ache at astral.msk.su> (November 12, 1993):
  # My sources says, that it is Mar 20, not 21.
  Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Mar	20	23:00	2:00	DS
  Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Sep	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
  Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
  Rule	Russia	1981	1984	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
  Rule	Russia	1981	1983	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
! Rule	Russia	1984	max	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
  Rule	Russia	1985	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
  
  # These are for backward compatibility with older versions.
  
--- 836,852 ----
  Rule	Russia	1919	only	-	Aug	16	 0:00	0	-
  Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Feb	14	23:00	1:00	S
  # Shanks gives 1921 Mar 21 for the following transition.
! # From Andrey A. Chernov <ache at astral.msk.su> (November 12, 1993):
  # My sources says, that it is Mar 20, not 21.
  Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Mar	20	23:00	2:00	DS
  Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Sep	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
  Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
  Rule	Russia	1981	1984	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
  Rule	Russia	1981	1983	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
! Rule	Russia	1984	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
  Rule	Russia	1985	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
+ # From Andrey A. Chernov <ache at nagual.ru> (1996-09-29):
+ Rule	Russia	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
  
  # These are for backward compatibility with older versions.
  
***************
*** 1745,1751 ****
  # a 6 day week; on 1940-06-27 it returned to the Gregorian week.
  #
  # From Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun.com> (1996-09-03):
! # Moscow rules after 1991 are from Andrew A. Chernov <ache at astral.msk.su>.
  # I invented the time zone names, and (unless otherwise specified)
  # guessed what happened after 1991; the clocks were chaotic, and we know little.
  # The rest is from Shanks.
--- 1747,1753 ----
  # a 6 day week; on 1940-06-27 it returned to the Gregorian week.
  #
  # From Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun.com> (1996-09-03):
! # Moscow rules after 1991 are from Andrey A. Chernov <ache at astral.msk.su>.
  # I invented the time zone names, and (unless otherwise specified)
  # guessed what happened after 1991; the clocks were chaotic, and we know little.
  # The rest is from Shanks.
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/asia,v
retrieving revision 1996.11
retrieving revision 1996.11.1.1
diff -c -r1996.11 -r1996.11.1.1
*** asia	1996/09/08 20:06:16	1996.11
--- asia	1996/09/29 19:22:47	1996.11.1.1
***************
*** 52,59 ****
  # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
  Rule RussiaAsia 1981	1984	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	S
  Rule RussiaAsia 1981	1983	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
! Rule RussiaAsia 1984	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
  Rule RussiaAsia 1985	max	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	S
  
  # Afghanistan
  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
--- 52,60 ----
  # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
  Rule RussiaAsia 1981	1984	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	S
  Rule RussiaAsia 1981	1983	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
! Rule RussiaAsia	1984	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
  Rule RussiaAsia 1985	max	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	S
+ Rule RussiaAsia	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
  
  # Afghanistan
  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]



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