FW: Belarus abolishes DST

Tim Parenti tim at timtimeonline.com
Sat Sep 17 16:44:50 UTC 2011


For the same reason the "KALT" designation was created for Kaliningrad
(because +03:00 is not generally equivalent to EET), we should probably use
something like "MINT" (or alternatively, since Belarus currently has only
one zone, "BYT").

Also, I feel it might be more logical to effect this change on the date of
the last clock change, 27 March 2011.  Regardless of when the actual decrees
were enacted, I doubt the average person in Belarus perceived any "change"
in timekeeping on 15 September 2011.

--
Tim Parenti



On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:35, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <
olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:

> I'm forwarding this message from Alexander Bokovoy; AB is now a subscriber.
>
>                                --ado
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Bokovoy [mailto:abokovoy at redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 6:06
> To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: Belarus abolishes DST
>
> Hello!
>
> Moving towards unification with Russia on economical reasons, Republic
> of Belarus has announced today to cancel daylight saving time rule and
> don't rewind clocks on last Sunday of October.
>
> Here is the news (in Russian):
> http://gosstandart.gov.by/ru-RU/NewsId.php?UrlRid=550
>
> The decree is N1229 by Belarussian government, dated 2011-09-15,
> unfortunately, not yet published on pravo.by so I can't reference it.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, the change would make Europe/Minsk zone look
> like:
>
> # Belarus
> # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
> Zone    Europe/Minsk    1:50:16 -       LMT     1880
>                        1:50    -       MMT     1924 May 2 # Minsk Mean Time
>                        2:00    -       EET     1930 Jun 21
>                        3:00    -       MSK     1941 Jun 28
>                        1:00    C-Eur   CE%sT   1944 Jul  3
>                        3:00    Russia  MSK/MSD 1990
>                        3:00    -       MSK     1991 Mar 31 2:00s
>                        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   2011 Sep 15
>                        3:00    -       EET
>
> --
> / Alexander Bokovoy
>
>
>
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