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@@ -2785,8 +2785,26 @@ Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr
# says he remembers that Samara opted out of the 1992-01-19 exception
# 2 days before the switch.
#
+# From Alois Treindl (2022-02-15):
+# the Russian wikipedia page
+# https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Московское_время#Перемещение_границы_применения_московского_времени_на_восток
+# contains the sentence (in Google translation) "In the autumn of
+# 1981, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Ryazan,
+# Lipetsk, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar and regions to the east
+# of those named (about 30 in total) parted ways with Moscow time.
+# However, the convenience of common time with Moscow turned out to be
+# decisive - in 1982, these regions again switched to Moscow time."
+# Shanks International atlas has similar information, and also the
+# Russian book Zaitsev A., Kutalev D. A new astrologer's reference
+# book. Coordinates of cities and time corrections, - The World of
+# Urania, 2012 (Russian: Зайцев А., Куталёв Д., Новый справочник
+# астролога. Координаты городов и временные поправки).
+# To me it seems that an extra zone is needed, which starts with LMT
+# util 1919, later follows Moscow since 1930, but deviates from it
+# between 1 October 1981 until 1 April 1982.
#
-# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18):
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2022-02-15):
# Given the above, we appear to be missing some Zone entries for the
# chaotic early 1980s in Russia. It's not clear what these entries
# should be. For now, sweep this under the rug and just document the
@@ -2833,7 +2851,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880
1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Apr 13
3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990
3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00
- 2:00 - EET 1992
+ 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 20
# Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997.
#
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
@@ -2843,7 +2861,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880
# sometime between the 1994 DST switches. Shanks & Pottenger simply say
# 1994-09-25 03:00, but that can't be right. For now, guess it
# changed in May.
- 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May
+ 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1994 May
# From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev.
3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 0:00s
3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s
@@ -4010,6 +4028,27 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents.
# Ukraine
#
+# From Alois Triendl (2014-03-01):
+# REGULATION A N O V A on March 20, 1992 N 139 ... means that from
+# 1992 on, Ukraine had DST with begin time at 02:00 am, on last Sunday
+# in March, and end time 03:00 am, last Sunday in September....
+# CABINET OF MINISTERS OF UKRAINE RESOLUTION on May 13, 1996 N 509
+# "On the order of computation time on the territory of Ukraine" ....
+# As this cabinet decision is from May 1996, it seems likely that the
+# transition in March 1996, which predates it, was still at 2:00 am
+# and not at 3:00 as would have been under EU rules.
+# This is why I have set the change to EU rules into May 1996,
+# so that the change in March is stil covered by the Ukraine rule.
+# The next change in October 1996 happened under EU rules....
+# TZ database holds three other zones for Ukraine.... I have not yet
+# worked out the consequences for these three zones, as we (me and my
+# US colleague David Cochrane) are still trying to get more
+# information upon these local deviations from Kiev rules.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2022-02-08):
+# For now, assume that Ukraine's other three zones followed the same rules,
+# except that Crimea switched to Moscow time in 1994 as described elsewhere.
+
# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice,
# via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27):
# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's government
@@ -4099,7 +4138,7 @@ Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880
1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Nov 6
3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 Jul 1 2:00
2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 3:00
- 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995
+ 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1996 May 13
2:00 EU EE%sT
# Transcarpathia used CET 1990/1991.
# "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Rusyn/Ukrainian pronunciation, but
@@ -4112,8 +4151,8 @@ Zone Europe/Uzhgorod 1:29:12 - LMT 1890 Oct
3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990
3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00
1:00 - CET 1991 Mar 31 3:00
- 2:00 - EET 1992
- 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995
+ 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 20
+ 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1996 May 13
2:00 EU EE%sT
# Zaporozh'ye and eastern Lugansk oblasts observed DST 1990/1991.
# "Zaporizhia" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
@@ -4126,7 +4165,8 @@ Zone Europe/Zaporozhye 2:20:40 - LMT 1880
3:00 - MSK 1941 Aug 25
1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Oct 25
3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00
- 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995
+ 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1992 Mar 20
+ 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1996 May 13
2:00 EU EE%sT
# Vatican City