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* Makefile (UNUSUAL_OK_CHARSET): Add «, ».
* europe: Add comment (thanks to Marat Nigametzianov).
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eggert committed Jul 16, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -416,9 +416,9 @@ SAFE_CHARSET= $(SAFE_CHARSET1)$(SAFE_CHARSET2)$(SAFE_CHARSET3)
SAFE_CHAR= '[]'$(SAFE_CHARSET)'-]'
# Non-ASCII non-letters that OK_CHAR allows, as these characters are
# useful in commentary. XEmacs 21.5.34 displays them correctly,
# presumably because they are Latin-1.
UNUSUAL_OK_CHARSET= °±½¾×
# useful in commentary. These all came from Latin-1, and so are likely
# to be displayable even in editors with limited character sets.
UNUSUAL_OK_CHARSET= «°±»½¾×
# OK_CHAR matches any character allowed in the distributed files.
# This is the same as SAFE_CHAR, except that UNUSUAL_OK_CHARSET and
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17 changes: 14 additions & 3 deletions europe
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# administratively part of Sakhalin oblast', they appear to have
# remained on UTC+11 along with Magadan.

# From Marat Nigametzianov (2018-07-16):
# this is link to order from 1956 about timezone in USSR
# http://astro.uni-altai.ru/~orion/blog/2011/11/novyie-granitsyi-chasovyih-poyasov-v-sssr/
# From Paul Eggert (2018-07-16):
# Perhaps someone could translate the above-mentioned link and use it
# to correct our data for the ex-Soviet Union. It cites the following:
# «Поясное время и новые границы часовых поясов» / сост. П.Н. Долгов,
# отв. ред. Г.Д. Бурдун - М: Комитет стандартов, мер и измерительных
# приборов при Совете Министров СССР, Междуведомственная комиссия
# единой службы времени, 1956 г.
# This book looks like it would be a helpful resource for the Soviet
# Union through 1956. Although a copy was in the Scientific Library
# of Tomsk State University, I have not been able to track down a copy nearby.

# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06):
# The comments detailing the coverage of each Russian zone are meant to assist
# with maintenance only and represent our best guesses as to which regions
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# future stability. ISO 3166-2:RU codes are also listed for first-level
# divisions where available.

# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]


# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03):
# Europe/Kaliningrad covers...
# 39 RU-KGD Kaliningrad Oblast
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