Russian time zone issue reported

[Ilya Dogolazky]

Hi !

It says: There is an official decision to use Moscow time in Samara 
region http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/article/1991161.html (in Russian)

But there is a petition against this decision, and they hope to undo it 
during the next summer->winter switch: "По мнению члена штаба "Самарское 
время", депутата губернской думы Михаила Матвеева, если количество 
подписей под петицией об отмене московского времени будет увеличиваться, 
то осенью у Самары есть шанс вернуть самарское время". But it's purely 
theoretical: usually Russian rulers don't care about the people's petitions.

According to this 
http://www.svobodanews.ru/archive/ru_news_zone/20100328/17/17.html?id=1995554 
the Udmurtia region is now using Moscow time as well (Europe/Samara was 
in use in exactly two regions: Samara and Udmurtia). This link says "the 
amount of time zones in Russia is reduced from 11 to 9". I think you can 
assume, that Samara and Kamchatka zones are not existing any more.

BR

Ilya Dogolazky
Maemo Devices
Nokia

ext Gary Lasker wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've been getting started maintaining tzdata for Ubuntu, and I wanted to
> check in with the list regarding an issue reported by an Ubuntu user in
> the following bug report (please refer to comment #16 posted by Guria:
>
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/tzdata/+bug/540295
>
> The comment from Guria is as follows:
>
> "Just looked at timezones more precisely. Unfortunately changes are
> wrong. In changed tz's was set only summer time, but winter time stays
> unchanged. This timezones doesn't exists already in fact. Europe/Samara
> is now exactly equal Europe/Moscow, Asia/Kamchatka is Asia/Magadan.
> Follow next link for details:
> http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/russia/time-zones/index.htm
> Also, please don't forget to provide this info to upstream or other
> distributions."
>
> I'd appreciate it very much if somebody could review this statement to
> determine what, if any, action may be required.
>
> Thank you very much and please email me if there's anything further I
> can provide.  I'll be following responses on-list.
>
> Thanks again and best regards,
> Gary Lasker
>
>