On 15/05/18 10:18, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
Look how MSK time zone was changed at 2014.10.26
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/russia/moscow
I think about something like this:
ID Name Valid from Offset
... MSK 2011.03.27 02:00 +4
... MSK 2014.10.26 02:00 +3
Is it makes sence ?
Can it be instead hardcoded in the function(s), describing MSK timezone?
I ask cause building a system that describes well former whims of our
government appears useless - I believe they can invent something else in
the future which will be out of scope of system built to describe
previous solutions :-) But if we have no other way to describe MSK
timezone (i.e. with random changes of offset at given moments of time) -
in that case this will be required.
All post 1970 changes to offset's are logged via the TZ database and the
Moscow time changes are based on the 'Russia' rule set ( which is used
by several timezones! ) up until the 2014 change when Europe/Moscow
diverges from the generic rule set. Many time zones use one of a sub set
of generic rules where they are associated with different locations. MSK
is actually used in several timezone rule sets.
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