[tz] Crimea switches to Moscow time at 22:00 local time March 29, 2014

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Mar 29 19:13:01 UTC 2014


WorldTimeZone wrote:
> Crimea switches to Moscow time at 22:00 local time March 29, 2014

Thanks for the heads-up.  That's less than an hour from now, but people 
who need the correct transition right away can install the attached 
patch, which I've pushed to the experimental repository on github.

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From 61ebb5f1906211708746cb6fd063a9f65b8d6e01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:05:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * europe (Europe/Simferopol), NEWS: Crimea switches to Moscow
 time

less than an hour from now.
---
 NEWS   | 5 +++++
 europe | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1ef2764..4bc13b2 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 2014-03-29 at 22:00 local time.
+    (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
+
   Changes affecting code
 
     Port to Cygwin sans glibc.  (Thanks to Arthur David Olson.)
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index f9a3392..0e2cc75 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -2963,10 +2963,10 @@ 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
-# 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
+# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-29):
+# Crimea switches to Moscow time at 22:00 local time March 29, 2014
+# (in Russian) http://www.c-inform.info/news/id/2339
+			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2014 Mar 29 22:00
 			4:00	-	MSK
 
 # Vatican City
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1.9.0



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