[tz] [PROPOSED] Asia/Almaty matches Asia/Tashkent from now on

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Mar 1 07:22:50 UTC 2024


This pacifies ‘make check_now’.
* NEWS: Mention this.
* zonenow.tab: Remove Asia/Almaty.
---
 NEWS        | 9 +++++++++
 zonenow.tab | 4 +---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 43f2ab05..8efa195f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 News for the tz database
 
+Unreleased, experimental changes
+
+  Changes to data
+
+    Asia/Almaty has been removed from zonenow.tab as it now agrees
+    with Asia/Tashkent for future timestamps, due to Kazakhstan's
+    2024-02-29 time zone change.
+
+
 Release 2024a - 2024-02-01 09:28:56 -0800
 
   Briefly:
diff --git a/zonenow.tab b/zonenow.tab
index b6f29109..1e7a86be 100644
--- a/zonenow.tab
+++ b/zonenow.tab
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ XX	+2518+05518	Asia/Dubai	Russia; Caucasus; Persian Gulf; Seychelles; Réunion
 XX	+3431+06912	Asia/Kabul	Afghanistan
 #
 # +05
-XX	+4120+06918	Asia/Tashkent	Russia; west Kazakhstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Maldives
+XX	+4120+06918	Asia/Tashkent	Russia; Kazakhstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Maldives
 #
 # +05 - PKT
 XX	+2452+06703	Asia/Karachi	Pakistan ("PKT")
@@ -215,8 +215,6 @@ XX	+2743+08519	Asia/Kathmandu	Nepal
 #
 # +06
 XX	+2343+09025	Asia/Dhaka	Russia; Kyrgyzstan; Bhutan; Bangladesh; Chagos
-# +06 until 2024-03-01; then +05
-XX	+4315+07657	Asia/Almaty	Kazakhstan (except western areas)
 #
 # +06:30
 XX	+1647+09610	Asia/Yangon	Myanmar; Cocos
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