[tz] Volgograd is planning to change its time zone back to Moscow on December 20, 2020

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-12-22 11:10, Станислав Гребенюков wrote:
> On 22.12.2020, 20:58, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> On 2020-12-22 01:54, Stepan Golosunov wrote:
>>> On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 02:06:08PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>>> On 12/4/20 12:34 PM, Stepan Golosunov wrote:

>>>>> Currently proposed text for the second reading (expected on
>>>>> Decemeber 8) on https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/1012130-7 
>>>>> <https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/1012130-7> changes the date to
>>>>> December 27.
>>>> Thanks for the heads-up. It looks like I may have jumped the gun a
>>>> little bit by installing the effective-December-20 change into the tzdb
>>>> development sources. Still, it seems more likely that Volgograd will
>>>> change on December 27, than that it won't change at all. So I installed
>>>> the attached proposed patch to do that. I'd like to see what happens
>>>> next week (or the week later or whatever), to make sure the change is
>>>> final, before generating a new tzdb release.
>>> The law was published today on 
>>> http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202012220002 
>>> <http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202012220002>
>> Care to post a translation, as the PDF is an image, and Google Translate 
>> gives up?
> The text of the law can be found on the website of the legislative authority
> (in russian): 
> http://sozd.duma.gov.ru/download/2CFF8CE5-7010-41E9-8305-8FFABEB23381 
> <http://sozd.duma.gov.ru/download/2CFF8CE5-7010-41E9-8305-8FFABEB23381>
> Resolution on amendments to the law (in russian): 
> http://sozd.duma.gov.ru/download/0A5A125F-8B3B-46B8-85D3-21E639FCD31E 
> <http://sozd.duma.gov.ru/download/0A5A125F-8B3B-46B8-85D3-21E639FCD31E>
> 
> Law acceptance workflow here (in russian): 
> https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/1012130-7
> <https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/1012130-7>
> The documents above are in the text form, not images.

"Project No. 1012130 -7
in the third reading
THE FEDERAL LAW
On amendments to Article 5 of the Federal Law
"On the Calculation of Time"
Article 1
Introduce into part 1 of Article 5 of the Federal Law of June 3, 2011 No. 107-FZ 
"On the Calculation of Time" (Collected Legislation of the Russian Federation, 
2011, No. 23, Art. 3247; 2014, No. 30, Art. 4249; 2016, No. 1 , art.73; no. 7, 
art. 915; no. 11, art. 1484, 1485, 1486, 1496; no. 15, art. 2049; no. 18, art. 
2485; no. 27, art. 4204; no. 48, art. . 6735; 2018, No. 42, Art. 6382) the 
following changes:
1) paragraph 2 after the words "Vladimir region," add the words
" Volgograd region, " ;
2) in clause 3, the words " Volgograd region, " shall be deleted .
Article 2
This Federal Law shall enter into force on December 27, 2020 at 2:00 am .
               The president
Of the Russian Federation V.Putin"

says that the Volgograd region will use the same time as the Vladimir region 
(Moscow time) in future, and so should be abbreviated *MSK* not +03, as in your 
current patch.

diff --git a/europe b/europe
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -2914,7 +2914,7 @@ Zone Europe/Volgograd	 2:57:40 -	LMT	1920 Jan  3
  			 3:00	Russia	+03/+04	2011 Mar 27  2:00s
  			 4:00	-	+04	2014 Oct 26  2:00s
  			 3:00	-	+03	2018 Oct 28  2:00s
  			 4:00	-	+04	2020 Dec 27  2:00s
-			 3:00	-	+03
+			 3:00	-	MSK

  # From Paul Eggert (2016-11-11):
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