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

Alexander Bokovoy abokovoy at redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 08:41:55 UTC 2014


On Wed, 08 Oct 2014, Paul Eggert wrote:
>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.
Sounds good to me. Thanks!

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/ Alexander Bokovoy


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