Information wanted #2: Russian Decree #725 vs. tzdata2011k

[Tobias Conradi]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Arthur David Olson
<arthurdavidolson at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are five places where this year's Russian Government Decree #725...
>      http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/
> ...and tzdata2011k differ on what current time is:
>
> Place           Decree #725     tzdata2011k     Notes
> Bulunskij       MSK+6           MSK+7           covered by Asia/Vladivostok
The claim that this District (Ulus, Raion) was in Asia/Vladivostok is
not supported by using

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CIA_WorldFactBook_Time_Zones.svg
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulunsky_District
and defining the district as not containing the New Siberian Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bulynsky_ulus_location.PNG (2007
image has the district without the islands)

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Sakha_Republic_-_administrative_divisions.svg
"Map of the uluses of Sakha Republic. The en:New Siberian Islands have
a different coulour to indicate that they are not part of any ulus
instead it is a natural reserve zone directly under jurisdiction of
the Sakha Republic."

CIA map from 2010 would have put Bulunskij in MSK+6 at that time.

> Tomponskij      MSK+6           MSK+7           covered by Asia/Vladivostok
> Ust'-Majskij    MSK+6           MSK+7           covered by Asia/Vladivostok
> Ojmyakonskij    MSK+7           MSK+8           covered by Asia/Magadan

> Sakhalin        MSK+8           MSK+7           already
> separate--Asia/Sakhalin

Sakhalin Oblast consists of the Sakhalin Island (several raions) and
the Kurils (3 raions).

According to http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/
MSK+8 contains  Северо-Курильский район = North Kuril Raion
MSK+7 contains all the rest.

Currently Theory has
Asia/Sakhalin
# Sakhalinskaya oblast'.
# The Zone name should be Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long.

Asia/Magadan:
# Probably also: Kuril Islands.

CIA 2010 has the Kurils at MSK+8 together with Magadan.

If CIA was correct then a new zone maybe called Asia/Yuzhno-Kurilsk
needs to be created, as proposed 2011-09-22 :

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4043

Since the southern Kurils switched from Magadan to Vladivostok.

Note that Ojmyakonskij may have switched too.

But I don't want to write about that, since I am not sure the feedback
is read by the maintainers.

Unanswered zone proposals:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4043
Asia/Yuzhno-Kurilsk

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4011
Asia/Tomsk, Asia/Barnaul

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/3991
Europe/Buesingen

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