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

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Mar 31 05:26:42 UTC 2014


Tim Parenti wrote:
> Perhaps, then, some commentary
> should be added to this effect, to help future time zone historians sort
> through the different sources?

Sure, why not?  I pushed the attached.



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From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 22:24:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * europe (Europe/Simferopol): Add comment about ceremonies.

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 europe | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/europe b/europe
index f9a3392..bfc596a 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -2966,6 +2966,10 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol	2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
 # 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
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-30):
+# Simferopol and Sevastopol reportedly changed their central town clocks
+# late the previous day, but this appears to have been ceremonial
+# and the discrepancies are small enough to not worry about.
 			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2014 Mar 30 2:00
 			4:00	-	MSK
 
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