<tt><font size=2>>> If, however, Novosibirsk is 7 hours from GMT
and Almaty is 6 hours <br>
>> from GMT, then Microsoft's table is wrong and needs to be updated
to<br>
>> separate Almaty and Novosibirsk.</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>><br>
> <br>
> Hmmm. You're right and the only think I can do for now is open a bug<br>
> in the Microsoft's bugzilla (or equivalent).</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>> <br>
</font></tt>
<br><tt><font size=2>"N.Central Asia Standard Time" used to be
displayed as "(GMT+06:00) Almaty, Novosibirsk", but "Almaty"
was removed from the display name by December 2009 cumulative time zone
update for Microsoft Windows operating systems [</font></tt><a href=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976098><tt><font size=2 color=blue>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976098</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>].
Later, the UTC offset of the zone had been changed to +7 by August 2011
update [</font></tt><a href=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570791><tt><font size=2 color=blue>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570791</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>].</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>So, although some old MSDN documentation may still
have the out of date information, Windows time zone data is up-to-date
for this one.</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>I'm maintaining a mapping data between the IANA tzids
and Windows time zones in the Unicode CLDR project and review the data
about quarterly basis [</font></tt><a href=http://www.unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/windowsZones.xml><tt><font size=2 color=blue>http://www.unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/windowsZones.xml</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>].
It looks Windows 8.1 start providing an API returning an IANA Time Zone
Database ID [</font></tt><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.calendar.gettimezone.aspx"><tt><font size=2 color=blue>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.calendar.gettimezone.aspx</font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>],
but I did not try it yet.</font></tt>
<br>
<br><tt><font size=2>-Yoshito</font></tt>
<br>