FW: no changes for 3 russian regions at this point

[Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]]

I'm forwarding this message from Ruslan Ermilov, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately.

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From: Ruslan Ermilov [ru at FreeBSD.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 5:04 PM
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Re: no changes for 3 russian regions at this point

Alexander Krivenyshev wrote:

> Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <olsona <at>
> dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes:
>
> > > > The latest 2011i tzdata does not have the Russian time
> > > > change described by Alexander Krivenyshev:
> > > "DRAFT DECISION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF Russian Federation...
> >
> > Does anyone know the current status of what was a draft
> > decision at the time of Alexander's report?
>
> After some extensive media reports that 3 Russian regions may
> change time zones this autumn and FIRST DRAFT DECISION OF THE
> GOVERNMENT OF Russian Federation on August 8, 2011 about
> upcoming changes on October 30, 2011: see link below:
> (http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia33.html)
>
> there were some corrections done on August 25, 2011 on DRAFT
> DECISION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF Russian Federation "On the
> composition of the territories that make up each time zone, and
> the procedure of calculation of time within time zones, and the
> repeal of certain resolutions of the Government of the Russian
> Federation", which shows NO time zones changes at this point
> for Vladivostok (Primorsky region), Irkutsk region and Sakha
> (Yakutia) will keep its current 3 time zones (MSK +6, +7, +8):
>
> 1. Vladivostok (Primorsky region) – will keep MSK+7 (UTC+11)
>
> 2. Sakha (Yakutia) – will keep its current 3 time zones:
> MSK+6 (UTC+10), MSK+7 (UTC+11), MSK+8 (UTC+12) and
>
> 3. Irkutsk region – will keep MSK+5 (UTC+9)
>
> Original document (in Russian) on:
> http://www.minpromtorg.gov.ru/docs/projects/531
> or
>
> http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia35.html
>
> I will keep my eyes open if there is any changes by October 30,
> 2011.

A final decision was made by Russian government on August 31,
2011, no. 725 (text in Russian):

http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/

The contents of time zones didn't change since the draft.