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# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28):
# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone
# was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has
# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone
# closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the
-# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau,
-# Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses
+# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtöbe, Atyraū,
+# Mangghystaū, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses
# everything else.... I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones
# de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively.
-# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-27) ([*] means see later comments below):
+# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-27):
# Review of the linked documents from http://adilet.zan.kz/
# produced the following data for post-1991 Kazakhstan:
#
# 0. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR
# from 1991-02-04 No. 20
@@ -1655,11 +1655,11 @@
# article claiming that Kaliningrad oblast decided on 1991-03-29 to not
# move clocks.)
#
# This implies that on 1991-03-31 Asia/Oral remained on +04/+05 while
# the rest of Kazakhstan switched from +06/+07 to +05/06 or from +05/06
-# to +04/+05. It's unclear how Kzyl-Orda oblast moved into the fifth
+# to +04/+05. It's unclear how Qyzylorda oblast moved into the fifth
# time belt. (By switching from +04/+05 to +05/+06 on 1991-09-29?) ...
#
# 1. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan
# from 1992-01-13 No. 28
# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000028_
@@ -1668,29 +1668,29 @@
# 1992-01-08 act. It specified that time would be calculated
# according to time belts plus extra hour ("decree time"), moved clocks
# on the whole territory of Kazakhstan 1 hour forward on 1992-01-19 at
# 2:00, specified DST rules. It acknowledged that Kazakhstan was
# located in the fourth and the fifth time belts and specified the
-# border between them to be located east of Kustanay and Aktyubinsk
-# oblasts (notably including Turgai and Kzyl-Orda oblasts into the fifth
+# border between them to be located east of Qostanay and Aktyubinsk
+# oblasts (notably including Turgai and Qyzylorda oblasts into the fifth
# time belt).
#
# This means switch on 1992-01-19 at 2:00 from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for
-# Asia/Aqtau, Asia/Aqtobe, Asia/Oral, Atyrau and Kustanay oblasts; from
-# +05/+06 to +06/+07 for Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qyzylorda (and Arkalyk) [*]....
+# Asia/Aqtau, Asia/Aqtobe, Asia/Oral, Atyraū and Qostanay oblasts; from
+# +05/+06 to +06/+07 for Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qyzylorda (and Arkalyk)....
#
# 2. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan
# from 1992-03-27 No. 284
# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000284_
-# cancels extra hour ("decree time") for Uralsk and Kzyl-Orda oblasts
+# cancels extra hour ("decree time") for Uralsk and Qyzylorda oblasts
# since the last Sunday of March 1992, while keeping them in the fourth
# and the fifth time belts respectively.
#
# 3. Order of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
# from 1994-09-23 No. 384
# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/R940000384_
-# cancels the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of Mangystau
+# cancels the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of Mangghystaū
# oblast since the last Sunday of September 1994 (saying that time on
# the territory would correspond to the third time belt as a
# result)....
#
# 4. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
@@ -1700,41 +1700,38 @@
# of September, mirroring identical Russian change from 1996-04-23 act.
#
# 5. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
# from 1999-03-26 No. 305
# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P990000305_
-# cancels the extra hour ("decree time") for Atyrau oblast since the
+# cancels the extra hour ("decree time") for Atyraū oblast since the
# last Sunday of March 1999 while retaining the oblast in the fourth
# time belt.
#
-# This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05.
-#
-# There is no zone for Atyrau currently (listed under Asia/Aqtau in
-# zone1970.tab).[*]
+# This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05....
#
# 6. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
# from 2000-11-23 No. 1749
# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P000001749_/23.11.2000
# replaces the previous five documents.
#
# The only changes I noticed are in definition of the border between the
# fourth and the fifth time belts. They account for changes in spelling
# and administrative division (splitting of Turgai oblast in 1997
-# probably changed time in territories incorporated into Kostanay oblast
-# (including Arkalyk) from +06/+07 to +05/+06) and move Kyzylorda oblast
+# probably changed time in territories incorporated into Qostanay oblast
+# (including Arkalyk) from +06/+07 to +05/+06) and move Qyzylorda oblast
# from being in the fifth time belt and not using decree time into the
-# fourth time belt (no change in practice).[*]
+# fourth time belt (no change in practice).
#
# 7. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
# from 2003-12-29 No. 1342
# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P030001342_
# modified the 2000-11-23 act. No relevant changes, apparently.
#
# 8. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
# from 2004-07-20 No. 775
# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P040000775_/20.07.2004
-# modified the 2000-11-23 act to move Kostanay and Kyzylorda oblasts into
+# modified the 2000-11-23 act to move Qostanay and Qyzylorda oblasts into
# the fifth time belt and add Aktobe oblast to the list of regions not
# using extra hour ("decree time"), leaving Kazakhstan with only 2 time
# zones (+04/+05 and +06/+07). The changes were to be implemented
# during DST transitions in 2004 and 2005 but the acts got radically
# amended before implementation happened.
@@ -1742,18 +1739,18 @@
# 9. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
# from 2004-09-15 No. 1059
# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P040001059_
# modified the 2000-11-23 act to remove exceptions from the "decree time"
# (leaving Kazakhstan in +05/+06 and +06/+07 zones), amended the
-# 2004-07-20 act to implement changes for Atyrau, West Kazakhstan,
-# Kostanay, Kyzylorda and Mangystau oblasts by not moving clocks
-# during the 2014 transition to "winter" time.
+# 2004-07-20 act to implement changes for Atyraū, West Kazakhstan,
+# Qostanay, Qyzylorda and Mangghystaū oblasts by not moving clocks
+# during the 2004 transition to "winter" time.
#
-# This means transition from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for Atyrau oblast (no
+# This means transition from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for Atyraū oblast (no
# zone currently), Asia/Oral, Asia/Aqtau and transition from +05/+06 to
-# +06/+07 for Kostanay oblast (Kostanay and Arkalyk, no zones currently)
-# and Asia/Qyzylorda on 2004-10-31 at 3:00....[*]
+# +06/+07 for Qostanay oblast (Qostanay and Arkalyk, no zones currently)
+# and Asia/Qyzylorda on 2004-10-31 at 3:00....
#
# 10. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
# from 2005-03-15 No. 231
# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P050000231_
# removes DST provisions from the 2000-11-23 act, removes most of the
@@ -1765,18 +1762,13 @@
# Unamended version of the act of the Government of the Russian Federation
# No. 23 from 1992-01-08 [See 'europe' file for details].
# Kazakh 1992-01-13 act appears to provide the same rules and 1992-03-27
# act was to be enacted on the last Sunday of March 1992.
-# From Paul Eggert (2016-04-15):
-# The tables below should reflect Stepan Golosunov's remarks above,
-# except for the items marked "[*]" which I haven't gotten to yet.
-# It looks like we will need new zones Asia/Atyrau and Asia/Qostanay
-# to handle changes from 1992 through 2004 that we did not previously
-# know about.
+# From Paul Eggert (2016-11-07):
+# The tables below reflect Golosunov's remarks, with exceptions as noted.
-#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
#
# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan
# This includes KZ-AKM, KZ-ALA, KZ-ALM, KZ-AST, KZ-BAY, KZ-VOS, KZ-ZHA,
# KZ-KAR, KZ-SEV, KZ-PAV, and KZ-YUZ.
@@ -1785,10 +1777,12 @@
6:00 RussiaAsia +06/+07 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
6:00 RussiaAsia +06/+07 2004 Oct 31 2:00s
6:00 - +06
# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.) (KZ-KZY)
+# This currently includes Qostanay (aka Kostanay, Kustanay) (KZ-KUS);
+# see comments below.
Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2
4:00 - +04 1930 Jun 21
5:00 - +05 1981 Apr 1
5:00 1:00 +06 1981 Oct 1
6:00 - +06 1982 Apr 1
@@ -1796,36 +1790,57 @@
4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
6:00 RussiaAsia +06/+07 1992 Mar 29 2:00s
5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 2004 Oct 31 2:00s
6:00 - +06
-# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Aktyubinsk) (KZ-AKT)
+# The following zone is like Asia/Qyzylorda except for being one
+# hour earlier from 1991-09-29 to 1992-03-29. The 1991/2 rules for
+# Qostenay are unclear partly because of the 1997 Turgai
+# reorganization, so this zone is commented out for now.
+#Zone Asia/Qostanay 4:14:20 - LMT 1924 May 2
+# 4:00 - +04 1930 Jun 21
+# 5:00 - +05 1981 Apr 1
+# 5:00 1:00 +06 1981 Oct 1
+# 6:00 - +06 1982 Apr 1
+# 5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+# 4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
+# 5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 2004 Oct 31 2:00s
+# 6:00 - +06
+#
+# Aqtöbe (aka Aktobe, formerly Aktyubinsk) (KZ-AKT)
Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
4:00 - +04 1930 Jun 21
5:00 - +05 1981 Apr 1
5:00 1:00 +06 1981 Oct 1
6:00 - +06 1982 Apr 1
5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 2004 Oct 31 2:00s
5:00 - +05
-# Qostanay (KZ-KUS)
-
-# Mangghystau (KZ-MAN)
+# Mangghystaū (KZ-MAN)
# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region,
# so include time stamps before 1963.
Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2
4:00 - +04 1930 Jun 21
- 5:00 - +05 1963
5:00 - +05 1981 Oct 1
6:00 - +06 1982 Apr 1
5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 1994 Sep 25 2:00s
4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05 2004 Oct 31 2:00s
5:00 - +05
-
+# Atyraū (KZ-ATY) is like Mangghystaū except it switched from
+# +04/+05 to +05/+06 in spring 1999, not fall 1994.
+Zone Asia/Atyrau 3:27:44 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 4:00 - +04 1930 Jun 21
+ 5:00 - +05 1981 Oct 1
+ 6:00 - +06 1982 Apr 1
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia +05/+06 1999 Mar 28 2:00s
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05 2004 Oct 31 2:00s
+ 5:00 - +05
# West Kazakhstan (KZ-ZAP)
# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18):
# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14).
Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk
4:00 - +04 1930 Jun 21
@@ -2637,11 +2652,11 @@
Rule Palestine 2016 max - Mar lastSat 1:00 1:00 S
Rule Palestine 2016 max - Oct lastSat 1:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
- 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15
+ 2:00 Zion EET/EEST 1948 May 15
2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5
2:00 Zion I%sT 1996
2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999
2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2008 Aug 29 0:00
2:00 - EET 2008 Sep
@@ -2650,11 +2665,11 @@
2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2011 Aug 1
2:00 - EET 2012
2:00 Palestine EE%sT
Zone Asia/Hebron 2:20:23 - LMT 1900 Oct
- 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15
+ 2:00 Zion EET/EEST 1948 May 15
2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5
2:00 Zion I%sT 1996
2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999
2:00 Palestine EE%sT
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