[tz] Crimea to switch to Moscow Time as of March 30, 2014

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Mar 20 05:29:47 UTC 2014


Thanks again.  I pushed the attached patch to the experimental 
repository, and we'll need to generate a new official release soon.
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From bb203f1bb0b6cd4bb2b08f2560a3e564a5614c59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:27:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Crimea switches to Moscow time.

* europe (Europe/Simferopol), NEWS:
Crimea switches to MSK on 2014-03-30 at 02:00 local time.
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
* zone.tab: Move its zone.tab entry from UA to RU.
---
 NEWS     | 5 +++++
 europe   | 6 +++++-
 zone.tab | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 070448d..6674c19 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ News for the tz database
 
 Unreleased, experimental changes
 
+  Changes affecting near-future time stamps
+
+    Crimea switches to Moscow time on 2014-03-30 at 02:00 local time.
+    (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)  Move its zone.tab entry from UA to RU.
+
   Changes affecting commentary and documentation
 
     Fix Tuesday/Thursday typo in description of time in Israel.
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 553735e..f9a3392 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -2963,7 +2963,11 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol	2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
 # Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks.
 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1997
 			3:00	-	MSK	1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u
-			2:00	EU	EE%sT
+# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-17):
+# time change at 2:00 (2am) on March 30, 2014
+# http://vz.ru/news/2014/3/17/677464.html
+			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2014 Mar 30 2:00
+			4:00	-	MSK
 
 # Vatican City
 # See Europe/Rome.
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index fa4df5f..6f988da 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ RU	+5443+02030	Europe/Kaliningrad	Moscow-01 - Kaliningrad
 RU	+5545+03735	Europe/Moscow	Moscow+00 - west Russia
 RU	+4844+04425	Europe/Volgograd	Moscow+00 - Caspian Sea
 RU	+5312+05009	Europe/Samara	Moscow+00 - Samara, Udmurtia
+RU	+4457+03406	Europe/Simferopol	Moscow+00 - Crimea
 RU	+5651+06036	Asia/Yekaterinburg	Moscow+02 - Urals
 RU	+5500+07324	Asia/Omsk	Moscow+03 - west Siberia
 RU	+5502+08255	Asia/Novosibirsk	Moscow+03 - Novosibirsk
@@ -398,7 +399,6 @@ TZ	-0648+03917	Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
 UA	+5026+03031	Europe/Kiev	most locations
 UA	+4837+02218	Europe/Uzhgorod	Ruthenia
 UA	+4750+03510	Europe/Zaporozhye	Zaporozh'ye, E Lugansk / Zaporizhia, E Luhansk
-UA	+4457+03406	Europe/Simferopol	central Crimea
 UG	+0019+03225	Africa/Kampala
 UM	+1645-16931	Pacific/Johnston	Johnston Atoll
 UM	+2813-17722	Pacific/Midway	Midway Islands
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