[tz] [PATCH 1/5] Further fixes for the proposed Russian change on 2014-10-26.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Jul 8 05:26:51 UTC 2014


From: Tim Parenti <tim at timtimeonline.com>

* europe: Fix an 80-column issue in commentary.
(Asia/Novokuznetsk): Switch abbreviation from NOVT to KRAT on 2014-10-26
at 02:00.
(Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Khandyga, Asia/Sakhalin, Asia/Ust-Nera):
Subtract an hour on 2014-10-26 at 02:00.
(Asia/Magadan): Subtract two hours at that time.
* zone.tab (Europe/Samara, Asia/Novokuznetsk, Asia/Magadan, Asia/Kamchatka)
(Asia/Anadyr): Update descriptions relative to Moscow time.
* NEWS: Document this.
---
 NEWS     | 12 +++++++++---
 europe   | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 zone.tab | 10 +++++-----
 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6f24217..41f0063 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
   Changes affecting future time stamps
 
-    Russia will subtract an hour from many of its time zones on 2014-10-26
-    at 02:00 Moscow time.  (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
+    Russia most likely will subtract an hour from many of its time zones on
+    2014-10-26 at 02:00 local time.  (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
     The affected zones are Europe/Kaliningrad, Europe/Moscow,
     Europe/Simferopol, Europe/Volgograd, Asia/Yekaterinburg, Asia/Omsk,
-    Asia/Novosibirsk, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Yakutsk, and Asia/Vladivostok.
+    Asia/Novosibirsk, Asia/Krasnoyarsk, Asia/Irkutsk, Asia/Yakutsk,
+    Asia/Vladivostok, Asia/Khandyga, Asia/Sakhalin, and Asia/Ust-Nera.
+    Asia/Magadan will have two hours subtracted.  Asia/Novokuznetsk's time
+    zone abbreviation is affected, but not its UTC offset.
 
   Changes affecting time zone abbreviations
 
@@ -20,6 +23,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     This change does not affect UTC offsets, only time zone abbreviations.
     (Thanks to Rich Tibbett and many others.)
 
+    Asia/Novokuznetsk shifts from NOVT to KRAT (remaining on UTC+7)
+    effective 2014-10-26 at 02:00 local time.
+
     The time zone abbreviation for Xinjiang Time (observed in Ürümqi)
     has been changed from URUT to XJT.  (Thanks to Luther Ma.)
 
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 7b22597..f0757b3 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -2050,6 +2050,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest	1:44:24 -	LMT	1891 Oct
 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1997
 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
 
+
 # Russia
 
 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-15):
@@ -2096,8 +2097,9 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest	1:44:24 -	LMT	1891 Oct
 #
 # Tobias Conradi combines Wikipedia's
 # "as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication"
-# with www.rg.ru's "Date of first official publication: September 6, 2011" to get
-# September 13, 2011 as the cutover date (unusually, a Tuesday, as Tobias Conradi notes).
+# with www.rg.ru's "Date of first official publication: September 6, 2011" to
+# get September 13, 2011 as the cutover date (unusually, a Tuesday, as Tobias
+# Conradi notes).
 #
 # None of the sources indicates a time of day for changing clocks.
 #
@@ -2197,8 +2199,7 @@ Zone Europe/Moscow	 2:30:20 -	LMT	1880
 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
 			 4:00	-	MSK	2014 Oct 26 2:00s
 			 3:00	-	MSK
-#
-# Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997.
+
 Zone Europe/Simferopol	 2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
 			 2:16	-	SMT	1924 May  2 # Simferopol Mean T
 			 2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
@@ -2207,6 +2208,8 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol	 2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
 			 3:00	-	MSK	1990 Jul  1 2:00
 			 2:00	-	EET	1992
+# Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997.
+#
 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
 # The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched
 # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections.
@@ -2320,13 +2323,19 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk	 5:31:40 -	LMT	1919 Dec 14 6:00
 # As a result, Kemerovo oblast' will be in the same time zone as
 # Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Barnaul and Altai Republic.
 
+# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-02), per Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-02):
+# The Kemerovo region will remain at UTC+7 through the 2014-10-26 change, thus
+# realigning itself with KRAT.
+
 Zone Asia/Novokuznetsk	 5:48:48 -	NMT	1920 Jan  6
 			 6:00	-	KRAT	1930 Jun 21 # Krasnoyarsk Time
 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
 			 6:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT	2010 Mar 28 2:00s
 			 6:00	Russia	NOV%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
-			 7:00	-	NOVT # Novosibirsk/Novokuznetsk Time
+			 7:00	-	NOVT	2014 Oct 26 2:00s
+						# Novosibirsk Time
+			 7:00	-	KRAT
 
 #
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
@@ -2338,7 +2347,8 @@ Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk	 6:11:20 -	LMT	1920 Jan  6
 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
 			 6:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
-			 8:00	-	KRAT
+			 8:00	-	KRAT	2014 Oct 26 2:00s
+			 7:00	-	KRAT
 #
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
 # Respublika Buryatiya, Irkutskaya oblast',
@@ -2412,7 +2422,8 @@ Zone Asia/Khandyga	 9:02:13 -	LMT	1919 Dec 15
 			 9:00	Russia	YAK%sT	2004
 			10:00	Russia	VLA%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
 			11:00	-	VLAT	2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725?
-			10:00	-	YAKT
+			10:00	-	YAKT	2014 Oct 26 2:00s
+			 9:00	-	YAKT
 
 #
 # Sakhalinskaya oblast'.
@@ -2424,7 +2435,8 @@ Zone Asia/Sakhalin	 9:30:48 -	LMT	1905 Aug 23
 			10:00	Russia	SAK%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
 			11:00	Russia	SAK%sT	1997 Mar lastSun 2:00s
 			10:00	Russia	SAK%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
-			11:00	-	SAKT
+			11:00	-	SAKT	2014 Oct 26 2:00s
+			10:00	-	SAKT
 #
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
 # Magadanskaya oblast', Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya).
@@ -2438,7 +2450,8 @@ Zone Asia/Magadan	10:03:12 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
 			10:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
-			12:00	-	MAGT
+			12:00	-	MAGT	2014 Oct 26 2:00s
+			10:00	-	MAGT
 
 # From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09):
 # Ojmyakonskij and the Kuril Islands switched from
@@ -2450,7 +2463,8 @@ Zone Asia/Ust-Nera	 9:32:54 -	LMT	1919 Dec 15
 			10:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
 			12:00	-	MAGT	2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725?
-			11:00	-	VLAT
+			11:00	-	VLAT	2014 Oct 26 2:00s
+			10:00	-	VLAT
 
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
 # Kamchatskaya oblast', Koryakskij avtonomnyj okrug.
@@ -2474,6 +2488,7 @@ Zone Asia/Anadyr	11:49:56 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			11:00	Russia	ANA%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
 			12:00	-	ANAT
 
+
 # San Marino
 # See Europe/Rome.
 
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index 08d9ba6..36b3957 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -340,12 +340,12 @@ RS	+4450+02030	Europe/Belgrade
 RU	+5443+02030	Europe/Kaliningrad	Moscow-01 - Kaliningrad
 RU	+5545+03735	Europe/Moscow	Moscow+00 - west Russia
 RU	+4844+04425	Europe/Volgograd	Moscow+00 - Caspian Sea
-RU	+5312+05009	Europe/Samara	Moscow+00 - Samara, Udmurtia
 RU	+4457+03406	Europe/Simferopol	Moscow+00 - Crimea
+RU	+5312+05009	Europe/Samara	Moscow+01 - Samara, Udmurtia
 RU	+5651+06036	Asia/Yekaterinburg	Moscow+02 - Urals
 RU	+5500+07324	Asia/Omsk	Moscow+03 - west Siberia
 RU	+5502+08255	Asia/Novosibirsk	Moscow+03 - Novosibirsk
-RU	+5345+08707	Asia/Novokuznetsk	Moscow+03 - Novokuznetsk
+RU	+5345+08707	Asia/Novokuznetsk	Moscow+04 - Novokuznetsk
 RU	+5601+09250	Asia/Krasnoyarsk	Moscow+04 - Yenisei River
 RU	+5216+10420	Asia/Irkutsk	Moscow+05 - Lake Baikal
 RU	+6200+12940	Asia/Yakutsk	Moscow+06 - Lena River
@@ -353,9 +353,9 @@ RU	+623923+1353314	Asia/Khandyga	Moscow+06 - Tomponsky, Ust-Maysky
 RU	+4310+13156	Asia/Vladivostok	Moscow+07 - Amur River
 RU	+4658+14242	Asia/Sakhalin	Moscow+07 - Sakhalin Island
 RU	+643337+1431336	Asia/Ust-Nera	Moscow+07 - Oymyakonsky
-RU	+5934+15048	Asia/Magadan	Moscow+08 - Magadan
-RU	+5301+15839	Asia/Kamchatka	Moscow+08 - Kamchatka
-RU	+6445+17729	Asia/Anadyr	Moscow+08 - Bering Sea
+RU	+5934+15048	Asia/Magadan	Moscow+07 - Magadan
+RU	+5301+15839	Asia/Kamchatka	Moscow+09 - Kamchatka
+RU	+6445+17729	Asia/Anadyr	Moscow+09 - Bering Sea
 RW	-0157+03004	Africa/Kigali
 SA	+2438+04643	Asia/Riyadh
 SB	-0932+16012	Pacific/Guadalcanal
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