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

Tim Parenti tim at timtimeonline.com
Thu Oct 9 20:02:10 UTC 2014


On 9 Oct 2014 02:41, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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 reasonable.  A proposed further patch documenting the historical 
use of FET is attached.

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Tim Parenti

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From 214412c2595ad8e08f50041d304e6b3c1c523855 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Parenti <tim at timtimeonline.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:58:45 -0400
Subject: * europe: Add dates for historical use of FET.

---
 europe | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/europe b/europe
index ba8fb87..27a8b30 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 #        1:00       CET CEST CEMT Central Europe
 #        1:00:14    SET           Swedish (1879-1899)*
 #        2:00       EET EEST      Eastern Europe
-#        3:00       FET           Further-eastern Europe*
+#        3:00       FET           Further-eastern Europe (2011-2014)*
 #        3:00       MSK MSD  MSM* Moscow
 
 # From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04),
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