[tz] Europe/Minsk: September 1992 transition is incorrect?

Stepan Golosunov stepan at golosunov.pp.ru
Fri Jul 1 21:03:52 UTC 2016


30.06.2016 в 17:18:29 +0200 Ed Schouten написал(а):
> Hi there,
> 
> When taking a look at 'zdump -v Europe/Minsk' with
> tzcode2016e/tzdata2016e running on a FreeBSD 10 system, I observe the
> following:
> 
> Europe/Minsk  Sat Sep 26 23:59:59 1992 UTC = Sun Sep 27 02:59:59 1992
> EEST isdst=1 gmtoff=10800
> Europe/Minsk  Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 1992 UTC = Sun Sep 27 02:00:00 1992
> EET isdst=0 gmtoff=7200
> 
> Now taking a look at the Zone definition of Minsk:
> 
>                         2:00    1:00    EEST    1992 Sep 27  0:00s
>                         2:00    Russia  EE%sT   2011 Mar 27  2:00s
> 
> My question is, shouldn't this transition have taken place two hours
> earlier? Can anyone else reproduce this?

Rules Russia were recently fixed to have transition from DST at 3:00
local time, so zdump's behaviour is expected.

Wikipedia links to
http://www.lawbelarus.com/repub/sub30/texf9611.htm
(Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus
from 25.03.1992 N 157)
which says clocks were to be moved forward at 2:00 on last Sunday of
March and backward at 3:00 on last Sunday of September (the same as
previous USSR and contemporary Russian regulations).  So it looks like
March 1992 transition for Europe/Minsk is incorrect.

I suspect that lines

			2:00	1:00	EEST	1991 Sep 29  2:00s
			2:00	-	EET	1992 Mar 29  0:00s
			2:00	1:00	EEST	1992 Sep 27  0:00s

should be removed from Europe/Minsk.


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