For consistency with the other zones to which we've temporarily ascribed "FET", this most recent change should be effected at a regularly scheduled clock change, not at the date of the decree. Since Europe/Chisinau follows EU rules, we should write the final change to Europe/Tiraspol to resemble our original changes to Ukraine (which have since been rendered invalid). The "UNTIL" date for the penultimate line in Europe/Tiraspol should be "2011 Mar lastSun 1:00u", having been the last forward clock change (to year-round UTC+3/FET).<br>
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In addition, being situated at +4651+2938 would give Tiraspol a pre-1880 LMT offset of 1:58:32.<br><br clear="all">--<br>Tim Parenti<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 02:46, Petr Machata <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmachata@redhat.com" target="_blank">pmachata@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Robert Elz <<a href="mailto:kre@munnari.OZ.AU" target="_blank">kre@munnari.OZ.AU</a>> writes:<br>
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> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:21:42 -0700<br>
> From: Jonathan Leffler <<a href="mailto:jonathan.leffler@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.leffler@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Message-ID: <CAH+RLGFyeEeYnvzfiy9xw9tg4P+9g=<a href="mailto:3RWOGY8GVngw5oXv9HGw@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">3RWOGY8GVngw5oXv9HGw@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>
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> | Did you have in mind winter (or standard) time starting at the end of<br>
> | October in the northern hemisphere? Or summer time (not?) ending?<br>
><br>
> As you guessed, I got it backwards - I originally intended to ask if the<br>
> intent was to remain on (effectively) summer time, or to revert to the<br>
> previous standard time, and just not resume summer time next year - but then<br>
> I thought the question was moot as it was just summer time not turning<br>
> on.<br>
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</div>I think you got it right the first time around.<br>
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The heading reads: "Pridnestrovie cancelled the transition to Winter<br>
Time". The article goes on to describe the reasons for the<br>
cancellation, and that the decree was signed on October 10 and will<br>
enter into force seven days after it's published. Whether that means<br>
Oct 17 they don't write.<br>
<br>
Moldova, they go on to explain, will enter Winter Time as usual, on the<br>
last Sunday of October. That's how Pridnestrovie has done it in the<br>
past, too.<br>
<br>
So my guess is that the zone will be like Chisinau, but without the DST<br>
transition that was supposed to occur at the end of October. As to the<br>
abbreviation, I'll venture a guess that they are doing this to sync with<br>
Ukraine, and that the abbreviation should correspondingly be EFT.<br>
(Though I'm on the LST side of the debate.)<br>
<br>
I'll attach a proposed patch (I didn't change the 1880 offset).<br>
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Hope this helps,<br>
<font color="#888888">PM<br>
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