[tz] Russian Legislation Status

[Deborah Goldsmith]

Are there any other issues blocking an IANA release for this? Are we waiting on Magadan?

Thanks,
Deborah

> On Mar 9, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Matt Johnson <mj1856 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> The four bills have been signed into law by the president.  This confirms the changes for Sakhalin Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Altai Republic and Altai Krai.
> 
> No word yet on Magadan.
> 
> Links:
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> Transbaikal (Zabaykalsky Krai)
> http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201512300107
> http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51105
> http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=840321-6
> 
> Astrakhan Oblast
> http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201602150056
> http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51338
> http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=862646-6
> 
> Sakhalin Oblast
> http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090044
> http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51468
> http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=888645-6
> 
> Ulyanovsk Oblast
> http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090051
> http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51474
> http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=920582-6
> 
> Altai Republic
> http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090043
> http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51460
> http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=935532-6
> 
> Altai Krai
> http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090038
> http://kremlin.ru/acts/news/51478
> http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=944348-6
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 8:51 AM
> To: Matt Johnson; Time zone mailing list
> Subject: Re: [tz] Russian Legislation Status
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up.
> 
> On 03/02/2016 04:40 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:
>> Transbaikal and Astrakhan have both been signed into law by the president and published.
>> 
>> Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk, Altai Republic, and Altai Krai have all been approved by both legislative bodies, and are awaiting signature by the president.
> 
> We have all the above in our current experimental version on GitHub
> <https://github.com/eggert/tz>.
> 
>> Magadan has no approvals yet.  It is on the agenda for discussion for March 15th, per the meeting notices published athttp://asozd2.duma.gov.ru   It seems unlikely to me that it will pass with a March 27th effective date as currently written, but that's just my opinion.
> 
> It is a dicey situation. Also, suppose President Putin rejects the bills
> for Sakhalin etc.? Suppose they languish on his desk until late this
> month? It's not realistic to expect all the systems in the world to
> update their time zone tables on such short notice.
> 
> Does anyone on this list know President Putin well enough to bring the
> matter up? :-)
> 
>> Another two bills were found for the Tomsk region.  One has a date of March 8th, the other has a date of May 29th.  I'm not quite sure of the difference between the two, but neither have approvals yet or are on the agenda.
> 
> These don't seem likely, but one never knows....