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* europe (Europe/Simferopol), NEWS:
Crimea switches to MSK on 2014-03-30 at 02:00 local time.
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.)
* zone.tab: Move its zone.tab entry from UA to RU.
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Unreleased, experimental changes

Changes affecting near-future time stamps

Crimea switches to Moscow time on 2014-03-30 at 02:00 local time.
(Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.) Move its zone.tab entry from UA to RU.

Changes affecting commentary and documentation

Fix Tuesday/Thursday typo in description of time in Israel.
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# Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks.
3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1997
3:00 - MSK 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u
2:00 EU EE%sT
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-17):
# time change at 2:00 (2am) on March 30, 2014
# http://vz.ru/news/2014/3/17/677464.html
2:00 EU EE%sT 2014 Mar 30 2:00
4:00 - MSK

# Vatican City
# See Europe/Rome.
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Expand Up @@ -343,6 +343,7 @@ RU +5443+02030 Europe/Kaliningrad Moscow-01 - Kaliningrad
RU +5545+03735 Europe/Moscow Moscow+00 - west Russia
RU +4844+04425 Europe/Volgograd Moscow+00 - Caspian Sea
RU +5312+05009 Europe/Samara Moscow+00 - Samara, Udmurtia
RU +4457+03406 Europe/Simferopol Moscow+00 - Crimea
RU +5651+06036 Asia/Yekaterinburg Moscow+02 - Urals
RU +5500+07324 Asia/Omsk Moscow+03 - west Siberia
RU +5502+08255 Asia/Novosibirsk Moscow+03 - Novosibirsk
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UA +5026+03031 Europe/Kiev most locations
UA +4837+02218 Europe/Uzhgorod Ruthenia
UA +4750+03510 Europe/Zaporozhye Zaporozh'ye, E Lugansk / Zaporizhia, E Luhansk
UA +4457+03406 Europe/Simferopol central Crimea
UG +0019+03225 Africa/Kampala
UM +1645-16931 Pacific/Johnston Johnston Atoll
UM +2813-17722 Pacific/Midway Midway Islands
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It is legal?! Crimea is Ukraine, and the entire civilized world recognizes it.

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No, it is not legal, but world doesn't care

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It must be fixed. This is really annoying me in KDE

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@eggert eggert commented on bb203f1 Oct 20, 2015

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A comment in zone1970.tab (zone.tab is obsolescent now) says:

# This table is intended as an aid for users, to help them select time
# zone data entries appropriate for their practical needs.  It is not
# intended to take or endorse any position on legal or territorial claims.

I don't know why the table's contents would cause an annoyance in KDE. Is this some KDE user-interface thing? If so, I suggest writing to the maintainers of the user interface in question. You can point them at the part of the Theory file that says the following:

Inexperienced users are not expected to select these names unaided. Distributors should provide documentation and/or a simple selection interface that explains the names; for one example, see the 'tzselect' program in the tz code. The Unicode Common Locale Data Repository http://cldr.unicode.org/ contains data that may be useful for other selection interfaces.

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I pointed out to you on a mistake in the information you provide about time zones and territorial appliances (in legal terms). According to the laws of Ukraine (to which belongs and the Crimea), you violating the law.

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@zhil zhil commented on bb203f1 Oct 21, 2015

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@eggert do you realize that you try to legalize russian agression against Ukraine?
I am going to contact US council

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@silentlexx @podarok @zhil

I'll be as polite as possible...

This is not the correct forum. If you have issues, please raise them constructively on the tz discussions mailing list. See http://www.iana.org/time-zones

Also note that this was heavily debated already, starting in March of 2014. You can review the discussion archive starting from here:
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-March/thread.html#20724

Attacking @eggert for the collective decision of the community is not appropriate or welcome. If you have valuable information to contribute, such as what time people in the affected region actually set their clocks to, or if there are differences between sub-cultures or other aspects of the local population's timekeeping behavior, then please do contribute that information constructively on the discussion mailing list.

Please also read BCP175 / RFC6557, which describes the official IETF/IANA position. Section 5 describes proper procedures for appealing decisions.

Thanks.

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