Comment 19 for bug 540295

Hello Guria! I forwarded your comment #16 to the time zone mailing list at <email address hidden> and received the following response (and a second response that I will add to the next comment):

Hi !

It says: There is an official decision to use Moscow time in Samara region http://www.svobodanews.ru/content/article/1991161.html (in Russian)

But there is a petition against this decision, and they hope to undo it during the next summer->winter switch: "По мнению члена штаба "Самарское время", депутата губернской думы Михаила Матвеева, если количество подписей под петицией об отмене московского времени будет увеличиваться, то осенью у Самары есть шанс вернуть самарское время". But it's purely theoretical: usually Russian rulers don't care about the people's petitions.

According to this http://www.svobodanews.ru/archive/ru_news_zone/20100328/17/17.html?id=1995554 the Udmurtia region is now using Moscow time as well (Europe/Samara was in use in exactly two regions: Samara and Udmurtia). This link says "the amount of time zones in Russia is reduced from 11 to 9". I think you can assume, that Samara and Kamchatka zones are not existing any more.

BR

Ilya Dogolazky
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