[tz] Russian Legislation Status

[Stepan Golosunov]

18.03.2016 в 13:38:12 -0700 Paul Eggert написал:
> In this version, only a few minor pre-1992 changes are visible to users.
> Although I expect that we will need new zones Europe/Kirov and Asia/Tomsk
> (as their post-1970 disagreements with existing zones seem to be supported
> well enough), for now I'm commenting out these new zones as I haven't had
> time to look into rumors about their pre-1990 data yet.

I believe that in Asia/Tomsk lines

#			 7:00	Russia	+07/+08	1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P.
#			 6:00	Russia	+06/+07	2002 May  1  3:00
#			 7:00	Russia	+07/+08	2014 Oct 26  2:00s

should be

#			 7:00	Russia	+07/+08	2002 May  1  3:00
#			 6:00	Russia	+06/+07	2011 Mar 27  2:00s
#			 7:00	-	+07	2014 Oct 26  2:00s


This is supported by
http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102075743 (fifth time belt
beeing UTC+5+1(decree time) / UTC+5+1(decree time)+1(summer time)),
"Tomsk is still 4 hours ahead of Moscow" 1994 comment and removed 2006
comment about 1993 change beeing a guess.

Note that time belts (numbered from 2 (Moscow) to 12 according to
their GMT/UTC offset and having too many exceptions like regions
formally belonging to one belt but using time from another) were
replaced with time zones in 2011 with different numberings (there
was a 2-hour gap between second and third zones in 2011-2014).