I can see now that Europe/Tiraspol is in file backzone. But should it not be in the official file europe?
As far as I understand, no other zone table represents exactly the same post-1970 history as this backzone entry. At least it is not mentioned in documentation. > On 9 Mar 2026, at 09:28, Alois Treindl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Moldova is effectively split into a west oriented part, capital Chinisau, and > a separatist eastern part called Transnistria. > It may be that transition to EU-style DST does not apply to Transnistria. > > is there any information about this? > > Will a new TZ zone be needed for Tiraspol, its capital? > > On 2/24/26 10:25 AM, Paul Eggert via tz wrote: >> Thanks for the corrections and the citations. I installed the attached patch >> to fix Moldova's transitions since 2022. >> >> It looks like we'll need a new release soon, as TZDB will be slightly wrong >> for the March 29 transition in Moldova, as it will have the transition >> occurring an hour too early. I would like to at least wait for the >> resolution to be approved tomorrow, though. >> >> You write: >> >>> It seems that in 1996 Moldova changed the end date to October like most of >>> Europe, but kept the transitions at 2:00 and 3:00 rather than 1:00 UTC, >>> which would have been locally 3:00 and 4:00. >> >> Yes, 1996 is confusing, as we have both Romania and Moldova switching on the >> EU dates but at 00:00 instead of at 02:00 and 03:00 as you stated. Is there >> a source for the 1996 transition times? Your email didn't mention one - not >> surprising, as reliable sources can be hard to come by for that historical >> period in eastern Europe. For now, I left that alone. >> >> Thanks again for the detailed email.
