[tz] Kazakhstan (all parts) switching to UTC+5 on March 1, 2024

Zhanbolat Raimbekov janbo87 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 03:56:38 UTC 2024


Hi,

Here is an official link to the Prime Minister's website (published today
Sat, 20 Jan 2024):
https://primeminister.kz/ru/decisions/19012024-20

Seems PM signed the decree yesterday. Paragraph 3 and 3.1 states to switch
to +5 to all oblasts (states).

Thank you

On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 3:56 AM Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 2024-01-19 11:15, Tim Parenti via tz wrote:
> > I've installed the attached patch to the
> > development repository.
>
> Thanks, I installed the attached further patches to pacify 'make check'
> for zonenow.tab, and to update some related commentary and diagnostics.
>
> As you can see, zonenow.tab needs care and feeding when these sorts of
> changes are made. The file will need further changes after the clocks
> change in Kazakhstan in March (as well as in Greenland later in March).
> This sort of thing is one reason I put off creating zonenow.tab for so
> long....
>
> I also wrote Kazakhstan's ambassador to the US, asking when the clock
> changes would become official. Today's announcements make it sound like
> unofficially it's going to happen but there is at least one more legal
> hoop to jump through. It'd be helpful if that were cleared up.
>
> I also referred the ambassador to our usual guideline
> <https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html#coordinating> of a year's
> notice of changes, and suggested that Kazakhstan's government warn cell
> phone users that on March 1 they can set their phones to Tashkent time
> as a workaround if the phones haven't yet been updated automatically.
>


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Zhanbolat Raimbekov
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