Bug 701268

Summary: DST policy change for Russia
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Josep 'Pep' Turro Mauri <pep>
Component: tzdataAssignee: Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 5.6CC: asersen, culrich, djuran, jwest, mnewsome, mpoole, rrajaram, syeghiay, xpahos
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: 716936 716937 716938 (view as bug list) Environment:
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Description Josep 'Pep' Turro Mauri 2011-05-02 11:35:41 UTC 
The Russian government has decided not to move back from DST later this year:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/3749
http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/russia-dst-law.html

So this seems to need correction:

# zdump -v Europe/Moscow | grep 2011
Europe/Moscow  Sat Mar 26 22:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 01:59:59 2011 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=10800
Europe/Moscow  Sat Mar 26 23:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 27 03:00:00 2011 MSD isdst=1 gmtoff=14400
Europe/Moscow  Sat Oct 29 22:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Oct 30 02:59:59 2011 MSD isdst=1 gmtoff=14400
Europe/Moscow  Sat Oct 29 23:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Oct 30 02:00:00 2011 MSK isdst=0 gmtoff=10800
Comment 1 Petr Machata 2011-06-27 14:07:15 UTC 
2011h is out.
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-08 08:29:00 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-1128.html
Comment 6 Petr Machata 2011-09-07 16:40:58 UTC 
*** Bug 736380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***