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On 07/06/2013 04:11 PM, Trevor North wrote:<br>
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<div class="WordSection1">Note that an Oracle Support document
(reference <span class="pafhovertarget"><b><span
style="font-size:15.5pt;color:black">Russia abandons DST
in 2011 - Impact on Oracle RDBMS [ID 1335999.1])</span></b></span>
relating to the change in Russia includes the following
information<o:p></o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Russian State
Duma passed the third reading of the bill 509727-5 "On the
Calculation of Time" (in Russia) and adopted a law
abolishing the transition to daylight saving time.<br>
The old rule was to move back on last Sunday of October (30
October 2011)<br>
<b>The Russian timezones will stay on the "summertime".</b><br>
For Questions/official statements about the DST change
itself, please contact the Russian Government<br>
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there is one actual factual error in my note, "<span
style="color:black">adopted a law abolishing the transition <b>to</b>
daylight saving time." should be "</span><span style="color:black">adopted
a law abolishing the transition <b>from</b> daylight saving
time."</span><br>
and "<span style="color:black"><b>The Russian timezones will stay on
the "summertime". </b>might be better worded as<b> "</b></span><span
style="color:black"><b>The Russian timezones will stay on the same
time as in the summer".</b></span> <br>
I'll update this on monday aldo it's rather old news these days and
the note is archived<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think this is contrary to Mr Olsons
assertion that abolishing now means standard.</p>
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My DST notes intention is to simply <i>reflect</i> the iana changes
and are not meant to be authoritative , <br>
It is documented Oracle uses the IANA database as source, so
whatever is in there is for Oracle "authoritative" regarding TZ's<br>
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Regards,<br>
Gunther<br>
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