FW: Belarus abolishing daylight saving time

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

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

				--ado

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirill A. Shutemov [mailto:kirill at shutemov.name] 
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 7:25
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Belarus abolishing daylight saving time

Hi,

According to BelTA News Agency, Council of Ministers of the Republic of
Belarus signed decision #1229 on September 15, 2011
According to the decision Belarus abolishing daylight saving time.
Belarus will use current standart time zone (UTC+2) plus one hour -
UTC+3.

diff -uNr tzdata2011j/europe tzdata/europe
--- tzdata2011j/europe	2011-08-17 19:52:01.000000000 +0300
+++ tzdata/europe	2011-09-17 02:22:20.675954688 +0300
@@ -689,6 +689,20 @@
 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
 
 # Belarus
+# From Kirill A. Shutemov (2011-09-17):
+# According to BelTA News Agency, Council of Ministers of the Republic of
+# Belarus signed decision #1229 on September 15, 2011
+# According to the decision Belarus abolishing daylight saving time.
+# Belarus will use current standart time zone (UTC+2) plus one hour -
+# UTC+3.
+#
+# BelTA news (in Russian):
+# http://www.belta.by/ru/all_news/society/V-Belarusi-otmenjaetsja-perexod-na-sezonnoe-vremja_i_572952.html
+#
+# Gosstandart -- The State Committee for Standardization of the Republic of
+# Belarus (in Russian):
+# http://gosstandart.gov.by/ru-RU/NewsId.php?UrlRid=550
+#
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Europe/Minsk	1:50:16 -	LMT	1880
 			1:50	-	MMT	1924 May 2 # Minsk Mean Time
@@ -700,7 +714,8 @@
 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
 			2:00	-	EET	1992 Mar 29 0:00s
 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1992 Sep 27 0:00s
-			2:00	Russia	EE%sT
+			2:00	Russia	EE%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
+			3:00	-	MNSK
 
 # Belgium
 #
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov