New zone Europe/Astrakhan

* NEWS, europe, zone.tab, zone1970.tab (Europe/Astrakhan): New Zone.

NEWS

@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ News for the tz database
 
 Unreleased, experimental changes
 
+  Changes affecting future time stamps
+
+    New zone Europe/Astrakhan for Astrakhan Oblast, Russia, which will
+    switch from 3 to 4 hours ahead of UTC on 2016-03-27 at 02:00.
+    (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev for the heads-up.)
+    As a trial of a new system that needs less information to be made up,
+    the new zone uses numeric time zone abbreviations like "+04"
+    instead of invented abbreviations like "ASTT".
+
   Changes to code
 
     tzselect's diagnostics and checking, and checktab.awk's checking,

europe

@@ -2403,9 +2403,30 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol	 2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
 			 3:00	-	MSK
 
 
+# From Paul Eggert (2016-02-12):
+# Europe/Astrakhan covers...
+# 30	RU-AST	Astrakhan Oblast
+
+# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-01-12):
+# On February 10, 2016 Astrakhan Oblast got approval by the Federation
+# Council to change its time zone to UTC+4 (from current UTC+3 Moscow time)....
+# http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/work/dz.nsf/ByID/5AEBD1A341D2B41843257F47003949EF/$File/Текст проекта_третье чтение.doc
+# This Federal Law shall enter into force on 27 March 2016 at 02:00.
+
+Zone Europe/Astrakhan	 3:12:12 -	LMT	1924 May
+			 3:00	-	+03	1930 Jun 21
+			 4:00	-	+04	1961 Nov 11
+			 4:00	Russia	+04/+05	1989 Mar 26  2:00s
+			 3:00	Russia	+03/+04	1991 Mar 31  2:00s
+			 4:00	-	+04	1992 Mar 29  2:00s
+			 3:00	Russia	+03/+04	2011 Mar 27  2:00s
+			 4:00	-	+04	2014 Oct 26  2:00s
+			 3:00	-	+03	2016 Mar 27  2:00s
+			 4:00	-	+04
+
 # From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03):
 # Europe/Volgograd covers...
-# 30	RU-AST	Astrakhan Oblast
+# ...
 # 34	RU-VGG	Volgograd Oblast
 # 43	RU-KIR	Kirov Oblast
 # 64	RU-SAR	Saratov Oblast

zone.tab

@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ RU	+5443+02030	Europe/Kaliningrad	Moscow-01 - Kaliningrad
 RU	+554521+0373704	Europe/Moscow	Moscow+00 - west Russia
 RU	+4457+03406	Europe/Simferopol	Moscow+00 - Crimea
 RU	+4844+04425	Europe/Volgograd	Moscow+00 - Caspian Sea
+RU	+4621+04803	Europe/Astrakhan	Moscow+01 - Astrakhan
 RU	+5312+05009	Europe/Samara	Moscow+00 (Moscow+01 after 2014-10-26) - Samara, Udmurtia
 RU	+5651+06036	Asia/Yekaterinburg	Moscow+02 - Urals
 RU	+5500+07324	Asia/Omsk	Moscow+03 - west Siberia

zone1970.tab

@@ -287,6 +287,7 @@ RU	+5443+02030	Europe/Kaliningrad	Moscow-01 - Kaliningrad
 RU	+554521+0373704	Europe/Moscow	Moscow+00 - west Russia
 RU	+4457+03406	Europe/Simferopol	Moscow+00 - Crimea
 RU	+4844+04425	Europe/Volgograd	Moscow+00 - Caspian Sea
+RU	+4621+04803	Europe/Astrakhan	Moscow+01 - Astrakhan
 RU	+5312+05009	Europe/Samara	Moscow+00 (Moscow+01 after 2014-10-26) - Samara, Udmurtia
 RU	+5651+06036	Asia/Yekaterinburg	Moscow+02 - Urals
 RU	+5500+07324	Asia/Omsk	Moscow+03 - west Siberia