[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] * europe (Asia/Novokuznetsk), NEWS: Fix misreading of Shanks.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Sep 6 02:20:22 UTC 2014


---
 NEWS   | 8 ++++++++
 europe | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8ddd091..50b5852 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 News for the tz database
 
+Unreleased, experimental changes
+
+  Changes affecting past time stamps
+
+    Shanks says Asia/Novokuznetsk switched from LMT (not "NMT") on 1924-05-01,
+    not 1920-01-06.  The old entry was based on a misinterpretation of Shanks.
+
+
 Release 2014g - 2014-08-28 12:31:23 -0700
 
   Changes affecting future time stamps
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 0130552..067acb6 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -2501,7 +2501,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk	 5:31:40 -	LMT	1919 Dec 14  6:00
 # 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
+Zone Asia/Novokuznetsk	 5:48:48 -	LMT	1924 May  1
 			 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
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