<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">From what I can tell in TZ data, the time zones only diverged between Asia/Baku and Asia/Yerevan in 1992.<br></div><div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Considering that the Republic of Artsakh declared independence in 1991, there is a chance that it has followed Armenian (Asia/Yerevan) rules since it declared independence, and thus there is no need for Asia/Stepanakert. However, this is just a guess, and we need more research before deciding whether there is a need to create the zone.<br></div><div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div id="sig63747625"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature"> Artemis Tosini<br></div><div class="signature"><br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></div><div>Am So, 21. Jul 2019, um 09:49, schrieb Alois Treindl:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><p>Nagorno-Karabakh is an 'Armenian enclave' inside Azerbaijan,
which seceded from Azerbaijan in the 1990s, and has some kind of
unclear status of autonomy since a ceasefire agreement in 1994.<br></p><p>See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh</a><br></p><p>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Autonomous_Oblast" class="qt-moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Autonomous_Oblast</a><br></p><p>Azerbaijan and Armenia have different time zone rules,
represented in TZ by Asia/Baku and Asia/Yerevan.<br></p><p>Has anyone researched the time zone and DST rules in
Nagorno-Karabakh?<br></p><p>If the time zone rules followed locally differ from Azerbaijan,
the situation there justifies the creation of a separate TZ zone.
The zone exists now since 25 years with rather high political
stability.<br></p></blockquote><div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></div></body></html>