[tz] Russian TZ Samara has no offset listed since 2010g

manprsi2 manprsi2 at cisco.com
Mon Nov 7 21:30:47 UTC 2011


The main issue with this is that applications which display the name by
regions, get inconsistent display when showing Europe/Russian Federation
regions. Two zones, Volgograd and Moscow, show a +00 offset, Kaliningrad
shows and -01 offset and Samara shows no offset. This is confusing to the
users. Can we please get this patched in the next release? The patch would
be

--- a/tzdata2011n/zone.tab    2011-10-28 02:54:04.000000000 -0700
+++ b/tzdata2011n/zone.tab    2011-11-07 13:28:23.000000000 -0800
@@ -334,5 +334,5 @@ RU    +5443+02030    Europe/Kaliningrad    Moscow
 RU    +5545+03735    Europe/Moscow    Moscow+00 - west Russia
 RU    +4844+04425    Europe/Volgograd    Moscow+00 - Caspian Sea
-RU    +5312+05009    Europe/Samara    Moscow - Samara, Udmurtia
+RU    +5312+05009    Europe/Samara    Moscow+00 - Samara, Udmurtia
 RU    +5651+06036    Asia/Yekaterinburg    Moscow+02 - Urals
 RU    +5500+07324    Asia/Omsk    Moscow+03 - west Siberia

Thanks
- Manpreet

On 10/31/11 3:36 PM, "Manpreet Singh" <manprsi2 at cisco.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>   Europe/Samara has the follow zone.tab definition since 2010g (no offset
> listed)
> 
>  RU    +5312+05009    Europe/Samara    Moscow - Samara, Udmurtia
> 
> It used to be 
> 
>  RU    +5312+05009    Europe/Samara    Moscow+01 - Samara, Udmurtia
> 
> Samara changed to Moscow but all the other regions are listed with an offset
> even if +00 (Volgograd, Moscow) while Samara is not. I can not tell by
> searching the mail archive if the change this way was intentional or not?
> 
> Thanks
> - Manpreet
> 




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