FW: Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude didn't change time zone, same MSK+5. New Russia map without DST.

Tue Apr 5 13:32:32 UTC 2011

From: Bruce Camber [mailto:camber at smallbusinessschool.org] 
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 7:03
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov; worldtimezone at yahoo.com; Derick Rethans
Subject: Re: Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude didn't change time zone, same MSK+5. New Russia map without DST.

Alexander, Derick, and the TZ group:

Is there any one person (or subgroup of people) within the TZ Group 
who is (are) advocating that time zones be pulled out of the UTC offset
and that time zones be known simply as TZ 1-to-24?

My reference on this topic is within the right column of this page:
http://smallbusinessschool.org/page2424.html

Is this a silly concept?  Is so, I would be very interested to learn why..
Thank you.

Warmly,

Bruce Camber
http://smallbusinessschool.org/page2646.html
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Alexander Krivenyshev <worldtimezone at yahoo.com> wrote:
Derick Rethans <tz <at> derickrethans.nl> writes:

>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Arthur David Olson wrote:
>
> > Here are proposed changes to the time zone package; the executive summary:
> >
> > asia                Russia to use permanent DST after its start in 2011.
> > europe              Russia to use permanent DST after its start in 2011.
> >             Irkutsk changes to Moscow+4 at start of DST in 2011.
> >             Ulan-Ude stays at Moscow+5 at start of DST in 2011 (new zone).
>
> Did you perhaps miss those in the 2011e update? I know that at least
> Ulan-Ude didn't make it in.
>
> cheers,
> Derick
>

Irkutsk stays at Moscow +5 (UTC+9) at  start of DST in 2011.
Ulan-Ude stays at Moscow+5 (UTC+9) at start of DST in 2011.

Irkutsk region (with the rest of Russia) goes to Daylight saving time March 27,
2011.
http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia30.html

and new Russia map (without DST):

http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-russia12.php
http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-russia24.php

Alexander Krivenyshev,
http://www.worldtimezone.com