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 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
-# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
+# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).
 
 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).

@@ -51,10 +51,16 @@
 #
 #       <a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf">
 #       William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition
 #       </a> (1914-03)
 #
+#       Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
+#       <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.  He writes:
+#       "It is requested that corrections and additions to these tables
+#       may be sent to Mr. John Milne, Royal Geographical Society,
+#       Savile Row, London."  Nowadays please email them to tz@iana.org.
+#
 #       Brazil's Departamento Servico da Hora (DSH),
 #       <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HISTHV.htm">
 #       History of Summer Time
 #       </a> (1998-09-21, in Portuguese)
 

@@ -687,10 +693,12 @@
                         1:00    -       CET     1985 Mar 31 2:00
                         1:00    EU      CE%sT
 
 # Austria
 
+# Milne says Vienna time was 1:05:21.
+
 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): Shanks & Pottenger give 1918-06-16 and
 # 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and
 # Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged"
 # date of 1945-04-12 with no time.  For the 1980-04-06 transition
 # Shanks & Pottenger give 02:00, the BEV 00:00.  Go with the BEV,

@@ -704,11 +712,11 @@
 Rule    Austria 1947    only    -       Apr      6      2:00s   1:00    S
 Rule    Austria 1948    only    -       Apr     18      2:00s   1:00    S
 Rule    Austria 1980    only    -       Apr      6      0:00    1:00    S
 Rule    Austria 1980    only    -       Sep     28      0:00    0       -
 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
-Zone    Europe/Vienna   1:05:20 -       LMT     1893 Apr
+Zone    Europe/Vienna   1:05:21 -       LMT     1893 Apr
                         1:00    C-Eur   CE%sT   1920
                         1:00    Austria CE%sT   1940 Apr  1 2:00s
                         1:00    C-Eur   CE%sT   1945 Apr  2 2:00s
                         1:00    1:00    CEST    1945 Apr 12 2:00s
                         1:00    -       CET     1946

@@ -1260,10 +1268,25 @@
                         1:00    C-Eur   CE%sT   1945 May 24 2:00
                         1:00 SovietZone CE%sT   1946
                         1:00    Germany CE%sT   1980
                         1:00    EU      CE%sT
 
+# From Tobias Conradi (2011-09-12):
+# Busingen <http://www.buesingen.de>, surrounded by the Swiss canton
+# Schaffhausen, did not start observing DST in 1980 as the rest of DE
+# (West Germany at that time) and DD (East Germany at that time) did.
+# DD merged into DE, the area is currently covered by code DE in ISO 3166-1,
+# which in turn is covered by the zone Europe/Berlin.
+#
+# Source for the time in Busingen 1980:
+# http://www.srf.ch/player/video?id=c012c029-03b7-4c2b-9164-aa5902cd58d3
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-03):
+# Busingen and Zurich have shared clocks since 1970.
+
+Link    Europe/Zurich   Europe/Busingen
+
 # Georgia
 # Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi.
 # Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni)
 # is in Europe.  Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part.
 

@@ -2064,10 +2087,74 @@
                         2:00    E-Eur   EE%sT   1997
                         2:00    EU      EE%sT
 
 # Russia
 
+# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-15):
+# Based on last Russian Government Decree # 725 on August 31, 2011
+# (Government document
+# <a href="http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/">
+# http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/
+# </a>
+# in Russian)
+# there are few corrections have to be made for some Russian time zones...
+# All updated Russian Time Zones were placed in table and translated to English
+# by WorldTimeZone.com at the link below:
+# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm">
+# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm
+# </a>
+
+# From Sanjeev Gupta (2011-09-27):
+# Scans of [Decree #23 of January 8, 1992] are available at:
+# <a href="http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966">
+# http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966
+# They are in Cyrillic letters (presumably Russian).
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09):
+# Regarding the instant when clocks in time-zone-shifting parts of Russia
+# changed in September 2011:
+#
+# One source is
+# < a href="http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/>
+# http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/
+# </a>
+# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Decree of August 31,
+# 2011 No 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information.
+#
+# Another source is
+# <a href="http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html">
+# http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html
+# </a>
+# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Resolution of the
+# Government of the Russian Federation on August 31, 2011 N 725" and also
+# contains "Date first official publication: September 6, 2011 Posted on:
+# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue number 5573 September 6, 2011" but which
+# does not contain any "effective date" information.
+#
+# Another source is
+# <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7">
+# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7
+# </a>
+# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011...
+# Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication"
+# but which does not contain any reference to September 6, 2011.
+#
+# The Wikipedia article refers to
+# <a href="http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=118896">
+# http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=118896
+# </a>
+# which seems to copy the text of the government.ru page.
+#
+# Tobias Conradi combines Wikipedia's
+# "as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication"
+# with www.rg.ru's "Date of first official publication: September 6, 2011" to get
+# September 13, 2011 as the cutover date (unusually, a Tuesday, as Tobias Conradi notes).
+#
+# None of the sources indicates a time of day for changing clocks.
+#
+# Go with 2011-09-13 0:00s.
+
 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
 # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations.
 # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991,
 # are from Andrey A. Chernov.  The rest is from Shanks & Pottenger,
 # except we follow Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat

@@ -2291,18 +2378,36 @@
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
 # Evrejskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskij kraj, Primorskij kraj,
 # [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya).
 
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
-# The Sakha districts are: Bulunskij, Verkhoyanskij, Tomponskij, Ust'-Majskij,
-# Ust'-Yanskij.
+# The Sakha districts are: Bulunskij, Verkhoyanskij, ... Ust'-Yanskij.
 Zone Asia/Vladivostok    8:47:44 -      LMT     1922 Nov 15
                          9:00   -       VLAT    1930 Jun 21 # Vladivostok Time
                         10:00   Russia  VLA%sT  1991 Mar 31 2:00s
                          9:00   Russia  VLA%sST 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
                         10:00   Russia  VLA%sT  2011 Mar 27 2:00s
                         11:00   -       VLAT
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09):
+# Tomponskij and Ust'-Majskij switched from Vladivostok time to Yakutsk time
+# in 2011.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-25):
+# Shanks and Pottenger (2003) has Khandyga on Yakutsk time.
+# Make a wild guess that it switched to Vladivostok time in 2004.
+# This transition is no doubt wrong, but we have no better info.
+#
+Zone Asia/Khandyga       9:02:13 -      LMT     1919 Dec 15
+                         8:00   -       YAKT    1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time
+                         9:00   Russia  YAK%sT  1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+                         8:00   Russia  YAK%sT  1992 Jan 19 2:00s
+                         9:00   Russia  YAK%sT  2004
+                        10:00   Russia  VLA%sT  2011 Mar 27 2:00s
+                        11:00   -       VLAT    2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725?
+                        10:00   -       YAKT
+
 #
 # Sakhalinskaya oblast'.
 # The Zone name should be Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long.
 Zone Asia/Sakhalin       9:30:48 -      LMT     1905 Aug 23
                          9:00   -       CJT     1938

@@ -2317,18 +2422,30 @@
 # Magadanskaya oblast', Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya).
 # Probably also: Kuril Islands.
 
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
 # The Sakha districts are: Abyjskij, Allaikhovskij, Verkhhhnekolymskij, Momskij,
-# Nizhnekolymskij, Ojmyakonskij, Srednekolymskij.
+# Nizhnekolymskij, ... Srednekolymskij.
 Zone Asia/Magadan       10:03:12 -      LMT     1924 May  2
                         10:00   -       MAGT    1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time
                         11:00   Russia  MAG%sT  1991 Mar 31 2:00s
                         10:00   Russia  MAG%sT  1992 Jan 19 2:00s
                         11:00   Russia  MAG%sT  2011 Mar 27 2:00s
                         12:00   -       MAGT
-#
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09):
+# Ojmyakonskij and the Kuril Islands switched from
+# Magadan time to Vladivostok time in 2011.
+Zone Asia/Ust-Nera       9:32:54 -      LMT     1919 Dec 15
+                         8:00   -       YAKT    1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time
+                         9:00   Russia  YAKT    1981 Apr  1
+                        11:00   Russia  MAG%sT  1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+                        10:00   Russia  MAG%sT  1992 Jan 19 2:00s
+                        11:00   Russia  MAG%sT  2011 Mar 27 2:00s
+                        12:00   -       MAGT    2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725?
+                        11:00   -       VLAT
+
 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
 # Kamchatskaya oblast', Koryakskij avtonomnyj okrug.
 #
 # The Zone name should be Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, but that's too long.
 Zone Asia/Kamchatka     10:34:36 -      LMT     1922 Nov 10