[tz] Sakha Republic bugs - eight months passed - still not fixed

[Andrew Paprocki]

On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Arthur David Olson
<arthurdavidolson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I suppose there was no actual clock change.  The resolution #725 is not
>> about changing clocks, it contains no such instructions whatsoever.
>
>
> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia:
>
>    As a result [of decree #725] some districts of the Sakha Republic
> switched from Vladivostok Time to Yakutsk Time (Zone 7):
>         Tomponsky District
>         Ust-Maysky District
>     Some districts switched from Magadan Time to Vladivostok Time:
>         Oymyakonsky District (Sakha Republic)
>         Kurilsky District and Yuzhno-Kurilsky District (Sakhalin Oblast)
>
> These switches are what would require clock changes; the question is, when
> did they change?

http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2011/09/01/885098.html

"From 2:00 am October 30, 2011 is proposed to transfer Primorsky Krai
and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for the seventh time zone (plus 6
hours to Moscow time), and the Irkutsk region - the fifth time zone
(plus 4 hours to Moscow time). Today in these regions, the difference
in time to Moscow more than one hour."