From 5882af7aae22dcd22a568ace54cd44f8058aeb5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:22:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Circa-1990 USSR updates, plus comments (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov, Matt Johnson, and Alexander Krivenyshev.) * NEWS: Document this. * asia (Asia/Oral): * europe: Add quite a bit of commentary, mostly from Stepan Golosunov, about changes since 1980 in the former Soviet Union. (Europe/Vilnius, Europe/Kaliningrad): Change from +03/+04 to +02/+03 on 1989-03-26, not 1991-03-31. (Europe/Volgograd): Change from +04/+05 to +03/+04 on 1988-03-27, not 1989-03-26. (Europe/Kirov, Asia/Tomsk): New draft entries, currently commented out. * NEWS, europe: Update Russian commentary. (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov, Matt Johnson, and Alexander Krivenyshev.) --- NEWS | 12 ++++ asia | 2 + europe | 231 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 3 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fabc6f4..fc3f58f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes 2014-09-07 through 2016-05-14 daylight saving time instead of standard time, as that seems more appropriate now. + Changes affecting past time stamps + + Europe/Kaliningrad and Europe/Vilnius changed from +03/+04 to + +02/+03 on 1989-03-26, not 1991-03-31. Europe/Volgograd changed + from +04/+05 to +03/+04 on 1988-03-27, not 1989-03-26. + (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov.) + + Changes to commentary + + Several updates and URLs for historical and proposed Russian changes. + (Thanks to Stepan Golosunov, Matt Johnson, and Alexander Krivenyshev.) + Release 2016b - 2016-03-12 17:30:14 -0800 diff --git a/asia b/asia index 2b457fe..c91df54 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -1645,6 +1645,8 @@ Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 5:00 - AQTT # West Kazakhstan +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1 diff --git a/europe b/europe index 9ac7a64..be578d0 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -610,6 +610,26 @@ Rule Russia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule Russia 1996 2010 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - # As described below, Russia's 2014 change affects Zone data, not Rule data. +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): +# Wikipedia and other sources refer to the Act of the Council of +# Ministers of the USSR from 1988-01-04 No. 5 and the Act of the +# Council of Ministers of the USSR from 1989-03-14 No. 227. +# +# I did not find full texts of these acts. For the 1989 one we have +# title at http://base.garant.ru/70754136/ : +# "About change in calculation of time on the territories of +# Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR and Estonian SSR, Astrakhan, +# Kaliningrad, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk and Uralsk oblasts". +# And http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt appears to +# contain quotes from both acts: Since last Sunday of March 1988 rules +# of the second time belt are installed in Volgograd and Saratov +# oblasts. Since last Sunday of March 1989: +# a) Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Estonian SSR, Kaliningrad oblast: +# second time belt rules without extra hour (Moscow-1); +# b) Astrakhan, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk oblasts: second time belt +# rules (Moscow time) +# c) Uralsk oblast: third time belt rules (Moscow+1). + # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-06-14): # According to Kremlin press service, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev # signed a federal law "On calculation of time" on June 9, 2011. @@ -1036,6 +1056,10 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base -4:00 Thule A%sT # Estonia +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). +# # From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15): # A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards # [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it, @@ -1629,6 +1653,9 @@ Link Europe/Zurich Europe/Vaduz # Lithuania +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). + # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. @@ -1668,8 +1695,8 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 1:00 - CET 1940 Aug 3 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 24 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug - 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s - 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u @@ -2235,6 +2262,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # I do not know why they have decided to make this change; # as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching # so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch. +# Tomsk is still 4 hours ahead of Moscow. # # From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04): # 'MSK' and 'MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with @@ -2280,10 +2308,25 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # Europe/Kaliningrad covers... # 39 RU-KGD Kaliningrad Oblast +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): +# http://www.rgo.ru/ru/kaliningradskoe-oblastnoe-otdelenie/ob-otdelenii/publikacii/kak-nam-zhilos-bez-letnego-vremeni +# confirms that the 1989 change to Moscow-1 was implemented. +# (The article, though, is misattributed to 1990 while saying that +# summer->winter transition would be done on the 24 of September. But +# 1990-09-24 was Monday, while 1989-09-24 was Sunday as expected.) +# ... +# http://www.kaliningradka.ru/site_pc/cherez/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=40091 +# says that Kaliningrad switched to Moscow-1 on 1989-03-26, avoided +# at the last moment switch to Moscow-1 on 1991-03-31, switched to +# Moscow on 1991-11-03, switched to Moscow-1 on 1992-01-19. + Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 2:00 Poland CE%sT 1946 - 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3:00 - FET 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 2:00 - EET @@ -2338,6 +2381,87 @@ Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr # 78 RU-SPE Saint Petersburg # 83 RU-NEN Nenets Autonomous Okrug +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): +# 11. Regions-violators, 1981-1982. +# Wikipedia refers to +# http://maps.monetonos.ru/maps/raznoe/Old_Maps/Old_Maps/Articles/022/3_1981.html +# http://besp.narod.ru/nauka_1981_3.htm +# +# The second link provides two articles scanned from the Nauka i Zhizn +# magazine No. 3, 1981 and a scan of the short article attributed to +# the Trud newspaper from February 1982. The first link provides the +# same Nauka i Zhizn articles converted to the text form (but misses +# time belt changes map). +# +# The second Nauka i Zhizn article says that in addition to +# introduction of summer time on 1981-04-01 there are some time belt +# border changes on 1981-10-01, mostly affecting Nenets Autonomous +# Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Yakutia, Magadan Oblast and Chukotka +# according to the provided map (colored one). In addition to that +# "time violators" (regions which were not using rules of the time +# belts in which they were located) would not be moving off the DST on +# 1981-10-01 to restore the decree time usage. (Komi ASSR was +# supposed to repeat that move in October 1982 to account for the 2 +# hour difference.) Map depicting "time violators" before 1981-10-01 +# is also provided. +# +# The article from Trud says that 1981-10-01 changes caused problems +# and some territories would be moved to pre-1981-10-01 time by not +# moving to summer time on 1982-04-01. Namely: Dagestan, +# Kabardino-Balkar, Kalmyk, Komi, Mari, Mordovian, North Ossetian, +# Tatar, Chechen-Ingush and Chuvash ASSR, Krasnodar and Stavropol +# krais, Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Vologda, Voronezh, Gorky, Ivanovo, +# Kostroma, Lipetsk, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov, Tyumen and +# Yaroslavl oblasts, Nenets and Evenk autonomous okrugs, Khatangsky +# district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug. As a result Evenk Autonomous +# Okrug and Khatangsky district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug would end +# up on Moscow+4, Tyumen Oblast on Moscow+2 and the rest on Moscow +# time. +# +# http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt +# attributes the 1982 changes to the Act of the Council of Ministers +# of the USSR No. 126 from 18.02.1982. 1980-925.txt also adds +# Udmurtia to the list of affected territories and lists Khatangsky +# district separately from Taymyr Autonomous Okurg. Probably erroneously. +# +# The affected territories are currently listed under Europe/Moscow, +# Asia/Yekaterinburg and Asia/Krasnoyarsk. +# +# 12. Udmurtia +# The fact that Udmurtia is depicted as a violator in the Nauka i +# Zhizn article hints at Izhevsk being on different time from +# Kuybyshev before 1981-10-01. Udmurtia is not mentioned in the 1989 act. +# http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt +# implies Udmurtia was on Moscow time after 1982-04-01. +# Wikipedia implies Udmurtia being on Moscow+1 until 1991. +# +# ... +# +# All Russian zones are supposed to have by default a -1 change at +# 1991-03-31 2:00 (cancellation of the decree time in the USSR) and a +1 +# change at 1992-01-19 2:00 (restoration of the decree time in Russia). +# +# There were some exceptions, though. +# Wikipedia says newspapers listed Astrakhan, Saratov, Kirov, Volgograd, +# Izhevsk, Grozny, Kazan and Samara as such exceptions for the 1992 +# change. (Different newspapers providing different lists. And some +# lists found in the internet are quite wild.) +# +# And apparently some exceptions were reverted in the last moment. +# http://www.kaliningradka.ru/site_pc/cherez/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=40091 +# says that Kaliningrad decided not to be an exception 2 days before the +# 1991-03-31 switch and one person at +# http://izhevsk.ru/forum_light_message/50/682597-m8369040.html +# says he remembers that Samara opted out of the 1992-01-19 exception +# 2 days before the switch. +# +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Given the above, we appear to be missing some Zone entries for the +# chaotic early 1980s in Russia. It's not clear what these entries +# should be. For now, sweep this under the rug and just document the +# time in Moscow. + # From Vladimir Karpinsky (2014-07-08): # LMT in Moscow (before Jul 3, 1916) is 2:30:17, that was defined by Moscow # Observatory (coordinates: 55 deg. 45'29.70", 37 deg. 34'05.30").... @@ -2411,15 +2535,18 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 3:00 - MSK -# From Paul Eggert (2016-02-12): -# Europe/Astrakhan covers... +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Europe/Astrakhan covers: # 30 RU-AST Astrakhan Oblast +# +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-01-12): # On February 10, 2016 Astrakhan Oblast got approval by the Federation # Council to change its time zone to UTC+4 (from current UTC+3 Moscow time).... -# http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/work/dz.nsf/ByID/5AEBD1A341D2B41843257F47003949EF/$File/Текст проекта_третье чтение.doc # This Federal Law shall enter into force on 27 March 2016 at 02:00. +# From Matt Johnson (2016-03-09): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201602150056 Zone Europe/Astrakhan 3:12:12 - LMT 1924 May 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 @@ -2431,34 +2558,50 @@ Zone Europe/Astrakhan 3:12:12 - LMT 1924 May 3:00 - +03 2016 Mar 27 2:00s 4:00 - +04 -# From Paul Eggert (2016-02-21), per Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): -# Europe/Volgograd covers... +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Europe/Volgograd covers: # 34 RU-VGG Volgograd Oblast -# 43 RU-KIR Kirov Oblast # 64 RU-SAR Saratov Oblast - -# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-09): -# Shanks & Pottenger say Kirov is still at +0400 but Wikipedia says +0300. -# Perhaps it switched after the others? But we have no data. +# The 1988 transition is from USSR act No. 5 (1988-01-04). Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 3:00 - TSAT 1925 Apr 6 # Tsaritsyn Time 3:00 - STAT 1930 Jun 21 # Stalingrad Time 4:00 - STAT 1961 Nov 11 - 4:00 Russia VOL%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Volgograd T + 4:00 Russia VOL%sT 1988 Mar 27 2:00s # Volgograd T 3:00 Russia VOL%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 4:00 - VOLT 1992 Mar 29 2:00s 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3:00 - MSK +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Europe/Kirov covers: +# 43 RU-KIR Kirov Oblast +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). +# +# Europe/Kirov is still in draft form and for now is commented out. +# Its pre-2002 data were cloned from Europe/Volgograd and need to +# be updated for Kirov. +# +#Zone Europe/Kirov 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 +# 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 +# 4:00 - +04 1961 Nov 11 +# 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s +# 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s +# 4:00 - +04 1992 Mar 29 2:00s +# 3:00 Russia +03/+04 2011 Mar 27 2:00s +# 4:00 - +04 2014 Oct 26 2:00s +# 3:00 - +03 # From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): # Europe/Samara covers... # 18 RU-UD Udmurt Republic # 63 RU-SAM Samara Oblast +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): # Byalokoz 1919 says Samara was 3:20:20. +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). Zone Europe/Samara 3:20:20 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 3:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samara Time @@ -2471,14 +2614,18 @@ Zone Europe/Samara 3:20:20 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 3:00 Russia SAM%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 4:00 - SAMT -# From Paul Eggert (2016-02-21): +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): # Europe/Ulyanovsk covers: # 73 RU-ULY Ulyanovsk Oblast +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). + # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-02-17): # Ulyanovsk ... on their way to change time zones by March 27, 2016 at 2am. # Ulyanovsk Oblast ... from MSK to MSK+1 (UTC+3 to UTC+4) ... # 920582-6 ... 02/17/2016 The State Duma passed the bill in the first reading. +# From Matt Johnson (2016-03-09): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090051 Zone Europe/Ulyanovsk 3:13:36 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 @@ -2560,8 +2707,9 @@ Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:30 - LMT 1919 Nov 14 # by March 27, 2016 at 2am.... # Altai Republic / Gorno-Altaysk MSK+3 to MSK+4 (UTC+6 to UTC+7) ... # Altai Krai / Barnaul MSK+3 to MSK+4 (UTC+6 to UTC+7) -# 935532-6 ... 944348-6 ... 02/17/2016 The State Duma passed the bill -# in the first reading. +# From Matt Johnson (2016-03-09): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090043 +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090038 Zone Asia/Barnaul 5:35:00 - LMT 1919 Dec 10 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 @@ -2573,13 +2721,9 @@ Zone Asia/Barnaul 5:35:00 - LMT 1919 Dec 10 6:00 - +06 2016 Mar 27 2:00s 7:00 - +07 -# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): -# Asia/Novosibirsk covers... +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Asia/Novosibirsk covers: # 54 RU-NVS Novosibirsk Oblast -# 70 RU-TOM Tomsk Oblast - -# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-19): I'm guessing about Tomsk here; it's -# not clear when it switched from +7 to +6. Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 6:00 - NOVT 1930 Jun 21 # Novosibirsk Time @@ -2590,6 +2734,28 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 7:00 - NOVT 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 6:00 - NOVT +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Asia/Tomsk covers: +# 70 RU-TOM Tomsk Oblast +# +# Asia/Tomsk is still in draft form and for now is commented out. +# Its pre-2002 data were cloned from Asia/Novosibirsk and need to be +# updated for Tomsk. Also, Tomsk may be changing time zones this year +# (not decided yet). + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): +# http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102075743 +# transitions Tomsk to the time of the fifth time belt at 2002-05-01 03:00. + +#Zone Asia/Tomsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 +# 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 +# 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s +# 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s +# 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P. +# 6:00 Russia +06/+07 2002 May 1 3:00 +# 7:00 Russia +07/+08 2014 Oct 26 2:00s +# 6:00 - +06 + # From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): # Asia/Novokuznetsk covers... @@ -2681,7 +2847,7 @@ Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:05 - LMT 1880 # [The] time zone in the Trans-Baikal Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai) - # Asia/Chita [is changing] from UTC+8 to UTC+9. Effective date will # be March 27, 2016 at 2:00am.... -# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/000120151230010 +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201512300107 Zone Asia/Chita 7:33:52 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 8:00 - YAKT 1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time @@ -2794,8 +2960,8 @@ Zone Asia/Khandyga 9:02:13 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 # From Matt Johnson (2016-02-22): # Asia/Sakhalin is moving (in entirety) from UTC+10 to UTC+11 ... -# http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=888645-6 -# Appears to have been approved in both first and second readings +# (2016-03-09): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090044 # The Zone name should be Asia/Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long. Zone Asia/Sakhalin 9:30:48 - LMT 1905 Aug 23 @@ -2821,6 +2987,14 @@ Zone Asia/Sakhalin 9:30:48 - LMT 1905 Aug 23 # until now by Asia/Magadan, will instead move to UTC+11. These regions will # need their own zone. +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-01-03): +# Magadan Oblast / Magadan (draft bill date of entry 2015-12-08), +# UTC+10 to UTC+11 +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-17): +# The bill is currently proposed to be approved in both the second and +# the third readings on 2016-03-22. It might be in time to be approved +# by the Federation Council on 2016-03-23. + Zone Asia/Magadan 10:03:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 10:00 - MAGT 1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time 11:00 Russia MAG%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s @@ -2828,6 +3002,11 @@ Zone Asia/Magadan 10:03:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 11:00 Russia MAG%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 12:00 - MAGT 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 10:00 - MAGT +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# If the bill passes as-is, replace the previous data line with: +# 10:00 - MAGT 2016 Apr 24 2:00s +# 11:00 - MAGT +# and update zone1970.tab and zone.tab to say "MSK+08" for Asia/Magadan. # From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06): -- 2.5.0