[tz] Republic of Belarus is NOT considering time zone change due to Russia's change

[Paul Eggert]

Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> Finally, Belarussian government decided against changing to winter time.

Thanks for the heads-up.  Although Belarus isn't changing its clocks, it looks 
like we should change its time zone abbreviation.  Currently it's FET 
(Further-eastern Europe Time), an abbreviation we invented in 2011.  After the 
fall changeover Belarus and Moscow will be using the same time, so it would make 
sense to change Belarus's abbreviation back to MSK, its more-traditional value. 
  A proposed patch is attached.
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From 503894e8c6908190322446a704a2ae64596f6b65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 23:37:37 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] * europe (Europe/Minsk): Change abbreviation from
 FET to MSK

when Moscow changes it clocks (2014-10-26 01:00 Minsk time).
* NEWS: Document this.
---
 NEWS   |  7 +++++++
 europe | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8b01e64..2d8aa87 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ News for the tz database
 
 Unreleased, experimental changes
 
+  Changes affecting future time stamps
+
+    Since Belarus is not changing its clocks even though Moscow is,
+    the time zone abbreviation in Europe/Minsk is changing from FET
+    to its more-traditional value MSK on 2014-10-26 at 01:00.
+    (Thanks to Alexander Bokovoy for the heads-up about Belarus.)
+
   Changes affecting past time stamps
 
     Many time stamps have been corrected for Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh before 1976
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 6b20b92..ba8fb87 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -724,6 +724,13 @@ Zone	Europe/Vienna	1:05:21 -	LMT	1893 Apr
 # http://www.belta.by/ru/all_news/society/V-Belarusi-otmenjaetsja-perexod-na-sezonnoe-vremja_i_572952.html
 # http://naviny.by/rubrics/society/2011/09/16/ic_articles_116_175144/
 # http://news.tut.by/society/250578.html
+#
+# From Alexander Bokovoy (2014-10-09):
+# Belarussian government decided against changing to winter time....
+# http://eng.belta.by/all_news/society/Belarus-decides-against-adjusting-time-in-Russias-wake_i_76335.html
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-08):
+# Hence Belarus can share time zone abbreviations with Moscow again.
+#
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Europe/Minsk	1:50:16 -	LMT	1880
 			1:50	-	MMT	1924 May  2 # Minsk Mean Time
@@ -736,7 +743,8 @@ Zone	Europe/Minsk	1:50:16 -	LMT	1880
 			2:00	-	EET	1992 Mar 29  0:00s
 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1992 Sep 27  0:00s
 			2:00	Russia	EE%sT	2011 Mar 27  2:00s
-			3:00	-	FET
+			3:00	-	FET	2014 Oct 26  1:00s
+			3:00	-	MSK
 
 # Belgium
 #
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