[tz] Kazakhstan to shift from UTC+6 to UTC+5

[Tim Parenti]

(Combining replies to a few similar messages.)

On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 13:08, Dauren Sarsenov via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> There is an upcoming timezone change I want to inform you about. In
> Kazakhstan we are moving away from UTC+6 to UTC+5 across all areas of the
> country.
> The change is effective at 00:00 1 march 2024.


Thanks; we were made aware of this change for Kazakhstan on 19 January.
See:
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2024-January/033566.html
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2024-January/033570.html


On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 13:07, Alexey Sharkov (KZ) via tz <tz at iana.org>
wrote:

>  3-1. Акиматам городов Астаны, Алматы, Шымкента, Акмолинской,
> Алматинской, Жамбылской, Карагандинской, Костанайской, Павлодарской,
> Северо-Казахстанской, Туркестанской, Восточно-Казахстанской областей и
> областей Абай, Жетісу, Ұлытау в ночь с 29 февраля 2024 года на 1 марта 2024
> года (в 00:00 часов) перевести местное время на 1 час назад.".
>
>
>
> For all Kazakhstan zones set local time back 1 hour night of February 29,
> 2024 to March 1, 2024 (at 00:00 hours)
>
> Zone      Asia/Almaty
>
> Zone      Asia/Qyzylorda
>
> Zone      Asia/Qostanay
>
> Zone      Asia/Aqtobe
>
> Zone      Asia/Aqtau
>
> Zone      Asia/Atyrau
>
> Zone      Asia/Oral
>

Our understanding is that this change only affects the eastern portions of
the country represented by Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qostanay, and not the other
zones as those areas already observe UTC+5 so will not be changing their
clocks.  This appears to be reflected in the locations listed in the quoted
legal text.


On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 13:08, Andrey.Kazakevich--- via tz <tz at iana.org>
wrote:

> How I can know when this change will be released?
>

You may want to consider subscribing to the low-traffic tz-announce mailing
list at
https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz-announce
which announces new tzdb releases as they come out.

There is no set schedule for a new release, as this is a volunteer project;
however, we are obviously now aware that one is needed ahead of 1
March.  So you can plan for a new release reasonably soon, once we've
allowed folks some time to test and comment on the pending changes.


> Have you some tracking or history of changes in database?
>

The main development copy of the database is kept on Github at
https://github.com/eggert/tz/commits/main
where you can find the upcoming change for Kazakhstan already in place:
https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/95a16c87f21c4643055482429dad921357a630c9

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Tim Parenti
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