[tz] [PROPOSED_PATCH] Moldova DST transitions were off by an hour
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Jul 2 06:39:10 UTC 2015
* NEWS: Moldova starts and ends DST at 00:00 UTC, not at 01:00 UTC.
(Thanks to Roman Tudos.)
* europe (Moldova): New rule.
(Europe/Chisinau): Use it.
---
NEWS | 5 +++++
europe | 14 +++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 156da23..f0fedbd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
Uruguay will stop observing DST. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
+ Changes affecting past and future time stamps
+
+ Moldova starts and ends DST at 00:00 UTC, not at 01:00 UTC.
+ (Thanks to Roman Tudos.)
+
Changes affecting installed data files
Data entries have been simplified for Atlantic/Canary, Europe/Simferopol,
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index a5e95bb..7cbf1f8 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -1763,6 +1763,18 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 0:00s # Valletta
# News from Moldova (in russian):
# http://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html
+# From Roman Tudos (2015-07-02):
+# http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=355077
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-01):
+# The abovementioned official link to IGO1445-868/2014 states that
+# 2014-10-26's fallback transition occurred at 03:00 local time. Also,
+# http://www.trm.md/en/social/la-30-martie-vom-trece-la-ora-de-vara
+# says the 2014-03-30 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 local time.
+# Guess that since 1997 Moldova has switched one hour before the EU.
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Moldova 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Moldova 1997 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880
@@ -1777,7 +1789,7 @@ Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880
2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992
2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997
# See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules.
- 2:00 EU EE%sT
+ 2:00 Moldova EE%sT
# Monaco
# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's
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