[tz] Proposed time zone package changes (Bahia Brazil, Pridnestrovie, Ukraine)

Robert Elz kre at munnari.OZ.AU
Thu Oct 20 02:49:05 UTC 2011 

Here are proposed changes to the time zone package.   The change
to Bahia Brazil has already occurred, and the others are due to
occur within 10 days (the weekend after next) so updates have become
urgent (yet again)...

The executive summary
	europe	Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Europe/Tiraspol)
		has followed much of Russia, and will retain "summer time"
		year round (that is no time transition is due Oct 30).
		This reintroduces a zone that had earlier been removed,
		and so removes the "backward" link.

		On the other hand, Ukraine have decided not to follow,
		so the change which had been made in preparation for
		that in tzdata2011k is now reverted, and there will be
		a transition on Oct 30.

	southamerica
		The change to Bahia, Brazil, that introduced summer time
		(following the regular Brazil rules, so commencing this
		year on Oct 16 - last SUnday) that was mooted before tzdata2011l
		was released, but withdrawn becase the change was not yet
		official, has now been ratified.

Aside from that, the other files that were changed in tzdata2011l
but where the sccs id was not altered, have all been given new version
numbers (southamerica has gone up by two, one for the 2011l changes, and
another for this set).

Sorry, still no signatures (I have not had time to do anything about that)
but I will distribute hash values as I did for tzdata2011l.

Please test these changes (particularly those of you using 64 bit time_t
systems).

I plan to release the next update (with thiese changes) on Monday October 24.

kre

--- asia	2011/10/08 02:27:38	1.3
+++ asia	2011/10/15 03:17:13
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)asia	8.68
+# @(#)asia	8.69
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
--- australasia	2011/10/08 02:28:28	1.3
+++ australasia	2011/10/15 03:18:03
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # <pre>
-# @(#)australasia	8.27
+# @(#)australasia	8.28
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
--- backward	2011/10/07 06:09:10	1.1
+++ backward	2011/10/20 02:20:30
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # <pre>
-# @(#)backward	8.9
+# @(#)backward	8.10
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@
 Link	Africa/Cairo		Egypt
 Link	Europe/Dublin		Eire
 Link	Europe/London		Europe/Belfast
-Link	Europe/Chisinau		Europe/Tiraspol
 Link	Europe/London		GB
 Link	Europe/London		GB-Eire
 Link	Etc/GMT			GMT+0
--- europe	2011/10/07 06:09:10	1.1
+++ europe	2011/10/20 02:30:32
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # <pre>
-# @(#)europe	8.38
+# @(#)europe	8.39
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
@@ -1655,6 +1655,29 @@
 # But [two people] separately reported via
 # Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau.
 # The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now.
+#
+# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-17):
+# Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR, also known as
+# "Pridnestrovie") has abolished seasonal clock change (no transition
+# to the Winter Time).
+#
+# News (in Russian):
+# <a href="http://www.kyivpost.ua/russia/news/pridnestrove-otkazalos-ot-perehoda-na-zimnee-vremya-30954.html">
+# http://www.kyivpost.ua/russia/news/pridnestrove-otkazalos-ot-perehoda-na-zimnee-vremya-30954.html
+# </a>
+#
+# <a href="http://www.allmoldova.com/moldova-news/1249064116.html">
+# http://www.allmoldova.com/moldova-news/1249064116.html
+# </a>
+#
+# The substance of this change (reinstatement of the Tiraspol entry)
+# is from a patch from Petr Machata (2011-11-17)
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2011-10-19)
+# In addition, being situated at +4651+2938 would give Tiraspola
+# a pre-1880 LMT offset of 1:58:32.
+#
+# (which agrees with the earlier entry that had been removed)
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Europe/Chisinau	1:55:20 -	LMT	1880
@@ -1671,6 +1694,21 @@
 # See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules.
 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
 
+Zone	Europe/Tiraspol	1:58:32 -	LMT	1880
+			1:55	-	CMT	1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT
+			1:44:24	-	BMT	1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT
+			2:00	Romania	EE%sT	1940 Aug 15
+			2:00	1:00	EEST	1941 Jul 17
+			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Aug 24
+			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
+			3:00	-	MSK	1990 May 6
+			2:00	-	EET	1991
+			2:00	Russia	EE%sT	1992
+			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1997
+# See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules.
+			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2011 Mar lastSun 1:00u
+			3:00	-	FET # Further-eastern European Time
+
 # Monaco
 # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's
 # more precise 0:09:21.
@@ -2651,6 +2689,28 @@
 # <a href="http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2011/09/20/6600616/">
 # http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2011/09/20/6600616/
 # </a>
+#
+# From Philip Pizzey (2011-10-18):
+# Today my Ukrainian colleagues have informed me that the
+# Ukrainian parliament have decided that they will go to winter
+# time this year after all.
+#
+# From Udo Schwedt (2011-10-18):
+# As far as I understand, the recent change to the Ukranian time zone 
+# (Europe/Kiev) to introduce permanent daylight saving time (similar
+# to Russia) was reverted today:
+#
+# <a href="http://portal.rada.gov.ua/rada/control/en/publish/article/info_left?art_id=287324&cat_id=105995">
+# http://portal.rada.gov.ua/rada/control/en/publish/article/info_left?art_id=287324&cat_id=105995
+# </a>
+#
+# Also reported by Alexander Bokovoy (2011-10-18) who also noted:
+# The law documents themselves are at
+#
+# <a href="http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb_n/webproc4_1?id=&pf3511=41484">
+# http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb_n/webproc4_1?id=&pf3511=41484
+# </a>
+
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 # Most of Ukraine since 1970 has been like Kiev.
@@ -2665,8 +2725,7 @@
 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 Jul  1 2:00
 			2:00	-	EET	1992
 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1995
-			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2011 Mar lastSun 1:00u
-			3:00	-	FET # Further-eastern European Time
+			2:00	EU	EE%sT
 # Ruthenia used CET 1990/1991.
 # "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
 # "Uzhgorod" is more common in English.
--- northamerica	2011/10/07 06:36:36	1.2
+++ northamerica	2011/10/15 03:17:28
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # <pre>
-# @(#)northamerica	8.49
+# @(#)northamerica	8.50
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
--- southamerica	2011/10/08 02:30:24	1.3
+++ southamerica	2011/10/15 03:46:37
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # <pre>
-# @(#)southamerica	8.50
+# @(#)southamerica	8.52
 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
@@ -818,6 +818,19 @@
 # oficial agency about time in Brazil, and she confirmed that the old rule is
 # still in force.
 
+# From Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues (2011-10-14)
+# It's official, the President signed a decree that includes Bahia in summer
+# time.
+#	 [ and in a second message (same day): ]
+# I found the decree.
+#
+# DECRETO No- 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
+# Link :
+# <a href="http://www.in.gov.br/visualiza/index.jsp?data=13/10/2011&jornal=1000&pagina=6&totalArquivos=6">
+# http://www.in.gov.br/visualiza/index.jsp?data=13/10/2011&jornal=1000&pagina=6&totalArquivos=6
+# </a>
+
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV20466.htm">20,466</a> (1931-10-01)
 # Decree <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HV21896.htm">21,896</a> (1932-01-10)
@@ -1054,10 +1067,8 @@
 # of America/Salvador.
 Zone America/Bahia	-2:34:04 -	LMT	1914
 			-3:00	Brazil	BR%sT	2003 Sep 24
-			-3:00	-	BRT
-# as noted above, not yet in operation.
-#			-3:00	-	BRT	2011 Oct 16
-#			-3:00	Brazil	BR%sT
+			-3:00	-	BRT	2011 Oct 16
+			-3:00	Brazil	BR%sT
 #
 # Goias (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG),
 # Espirito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Sao Paulo (SP), Parana (PR),

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