[tz] Ukraine to abolish DST?

[Yuriy Novostavskiy]

I assumed that changes would technically take affects on March 30,
2025, when DST will not be introduced. Anyway, I propose to keep those
changes in "work in progress" status until a new law is finally signed
and published, and in the final text will have clear understanding of
'de jure' cut-off date.

I will keep it tracked and will inform you.

BR/Yurii

On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 10:20 PM Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the heads-up about the bill. I found a copy on the Rada
> website[1]. Assuming the president signs it and it becomes law, we'll
> need a change and a new TZDB release.
>
> The bill says that the law would take effect three months after
> promulgation, so it'd be helpful to find out its promulgation date
> whenever that happens to be.
>
> A further proposed resolution was introduced today[2] to annul
> yesterday's decision and stick with the status quo, on the grounds that
> yesterday's decision wasn't properly conducted. Not knowing Ukrainian
> politics, I don't know how today's proposal will affect matters.
>
> I am attaching a draft TZDB patch but I haven't installed it into the
> development version, because the effective date isn't known (I
> approximated it as "2025" in the draft patch), the bill as it stands
> might not become law, and the patch will need commentary. The
> zonenow.tab part of the draft patch would be temporary and that file
> would need to be updated further after 2024-10-27 as Ukraine would merge
> with Libya and Kaliningrad for future timestamps.
>
> [1]: https://itd.rada.gov.ua/billInfo/Bills/Card/4294
> [2]: https://itd.rada.gov.ua/billInfo/Bills/Card/44572