[tz] Revised proposed changes: past Altai/Tomsk time zone shifts

[Andrew Paprocki]

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Arthur David Olson
<arthurdavidolson at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...the table from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omsk_Time could be used where
> translation is not needed.
>
> Improvidently that table does not give times of day for the transitions.
>
>         --ado

Also, I found this on the Kremlin blog:
http://blog.kremlin.ru/accounts/105495?page=2
23 апреля 2012 07:26 & 23 апреля 2012 07:29

(There are also a lot of great comments on page 1 as well talking
about the history of time changes.)

It lists the exact dates of timezone changes in every timezone in
Russia. (No times, though) It can be used to check the zones in tzdb
to ensure that each of the zones have all the transitions listed
below:

(Google translation)

History of administrative time in Russia shows authorities' failure to
properly address issues vremyaischisleniya - a lot of changes (an
average of 5-6 per territory) for the period from 1924 to 2011.
Territory of the current time zones 1 and 2, since the establishment
of maternity time June 21, 1930, relative to UTC time and date of the
change:

Kaliningrad: 1, 3 (1956), 2 (1991), 3 (2011).

Pskov, St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Smolensk, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk,
Bryansk, Tver, Orel, Kursk, Kaluga, Belgorod, Moscow: 3, 2 (1991), 3
(1992), 4 (2011).

Tula: 4, 3 (1931), 2 (1991), 3 (1992), 4 (2011).

Voronezh, Lipetsk, Ryazan, Rostov-on-Don, Vologda, Yaroslavl,
Vladimir, Arkhangelsk, Ivanovo: 4, 3 (1931), 4 (1981), 3 (1982), 2
(1991), 3 (1992), 4 (2011).

Krasnodar, Maikop, Kostroma, Tambov and Stavropol, Cherkessk, Nalchik,
Nizhny Novgorod, Elista, Vladikavkaz, Magas, Penza, Saransk, Grozny,
Cheboksary, Makhachkala, Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan: 4, 3 (1956), 4 (1981) , 3
(1982), 2 (1991), 3 (1992), 4 (2011).

Volgograd, Saratov: 4, 3 (1988), 2 (1991), 3 (1992), 4 (2011).

Astrakhan, Ulyanovsk, Kirov: 4, 3 (1989), 2 (1991), 3 (1992), 4 (2011).

Samara: 4, 3 (1989), 4 (1992), 3 (2010), 4 (2011).

Syktyvkar: 4, 5 (1981), 3 (1982), 2 (1991), 3 (1992), 4 (2011).

Naryan-Mar 5, 4 (1956), 5 (1981), 3 (1982), 2 (1991), 3 (1992), 4 (2011).

Izhevsk: 5, 4 (1931), 3 (1991), 4 (1992), 3 (2010), 4 (2011).

Clarification of the date change: February 9, 1931 December 1, 1956
October 1, 1981 April 1, 1982 March 27, 1988 March 26, 1989, March 31,
1991, January 19, 1992, March 28, 2010 March 27, 2011.

The data presented show that now we should expect another shift arrows
1 hour ago.

History of administrative time in Russia shows authorities' failure to
properly address issues vremyaischisleniya - a lot of changes (an
average of 5-6 per territory) for the period from 1924 to 2011.
Territory of the current time zone from 3 to 9 since the establishment
of maternity time June 21, 1930, relative to UTC time and date of the
change:

Orenburg: 5, 4 (1931), 5 (1956), 4 (1991), 5 (1992), 6 (2011).

Ufa, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan: 5, 4 (1991), 5 (1992), 6 (2011).

Tyumen: 5, 6 (1981), 5 (1982), 4 (1991), 5 (1992), 6 (2011).

Salekhard: 5, 6 (1931), 5 (1956), 6 (1981), 5 (1982), 4 (1991), 5
(1992), 6 (2011).

Khanty-Mansiysk: 6, 5 (1956), 6 (1981), 5 (1982), 4 (1991), 5 (1992), 6 (2011).

Omsk: 6, 5 (1991), 6 (1992), 7 (2011).

Novosibirsk: 7, 6 (1991), 7 (1992), 6 (1993), 7 (2011).

Barnaul, Gorno-Altaisk: 7, 6 (1991), 7 (1992), 6 (1995), 7 (2011).

Tomsk: 7, 6 (1991), 7 (1992), 6 (2002), 7 (2011).

Kemerovo: 7, 6 (1991), 7 (1992), 6 (2010), 7 (2011).

Abakan, Krasnoyarsk, Kyzyl: 7, 6 (1991), 7 (1992), 7 (2011).

Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude: 8, 7 (1991), 8 (1992), 9 (2011).

Chita: 9, 8 (1991), 9 (1992), 10 (2011).

Blagoveshchensk and Yakutsk: 10, 9 (1956), 8 (1991), 9 (1992), 10 (2011).

Vladivostok, Birobidzhan, Khabarovsk: 10, 9 (1991), 10 (1992), 11 (2011).

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 11, 10 (1931), 11 (1956), 10 (1991), 11 (1992), 10
(1997), 11 (2011).

Magadan, 11, 10 (1991), 11 (1992), 12 (2011).

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: 12, 11 (1991), 12 (1992), 11 (2010), 12 (2011).

Anadyr: 13, 12 (1982), 11 (1991), 12 (1992), 11 (2010), 12 (2011).

Clarification of the date change: February 9, 1931 December 1, 1956
October 1, 1981 April 1, 1982 March 31, 1991, January 19, 1992, May
23, 1993, May 28, 1995, March 30, 1997 May 1, 2002 March 28, 2010,
March 27 , 2011.

The data presented show that now we should expect another shift arrows
1 hour ago.