[tz] Magadan (Russia) may change it time zone on April 24, 2016

[Matt Johnson]

The law was approved by the Federation Council on March 30th, and signed by the President today, April 5th.

http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51656
http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201604050038
http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=948300-6

This affects Asia/Magadan, with the expected April 24th date.

-Matt

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From: tz-bounces at iana.org <tz-bounces at iana.org> on behalf of Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 11:27 PM
To: Alexander Krivenyshev; Time zone mailing list
Subject: Re: [tz] Magadan (Russia) may change it time zone on April 24, 2016

Alexander Krivenyshev wrote:
> as of March 23, 2016  passed its 3rd reading by the State Duma
>
> and if approved by the Federation Council, will take into effect as the
> Federal Law on April 24, 2016 at at 2 o'clock 00 minutes.

Thanks for the info. At this point I guess the Magadan change is more likely
than not, so I installed the attached patch into the experimental tzdata version
on GitHub.