First published on TECHNET on Aug 15, 2011
The
August 2011 DST Cumulative Update
for Windows operating systems contains the following changes :
NewFoundland
:
-
Newfoundland’s DST start and end times have been updated to 2AM from 12:01 AM. The rest of the Newfoundland time zone schedule is unchanged.
Russian Time Zones
:
-
A new time zone has been created for Kaliningrad with displayname “
(UTC+3:00) Kaliningrad
”. This time zone does not support Daylight saving time.
-
Support for Daylight Saving time has been discontinued and UTC offsets have been updated for time zones listed in the table below:
Time Zone
|
Old
|
New
|
Russian Standard Time
|
(UTC +3:00) Moscow, St Petersburg, Volgograd
|
(UTC +4:00) Moscow, St Petersburg, Volgograd
|
Ekaterinburg Standard Time
|
(UTC +5:00) Ekaterinburg
|
(UTC +6:00) Ekaterinburg
|
N. Central Asia Standard Time
|
(UTC +6:00) Novosibirsk
|
(UTC +7:00) Novosibirsk
|
North Asia Standard Time
|
(UTC +7:00) Krasnoyarsk
|
(UTC +8:00) Krasnoyarsk
|
North Asia East Standard Time
|
(UTC +8:00) Irkutsk
|
(UTC +9:00) Irkutsk
|
Yakutsk Standard Time
|
(UTC +9:00) Yakutsk
|
(UTC +10:00) Yakutsk
|
Vladivostok Standard Time
|
(UTC +10:00) Vladivostok
|
(UTC +11:00) Vladivostok
|
Magadan Standard Time
|
(UTC +11:00) Magadan
|
(UTC +12:00) Magadan
|
In addition to these changes, the August DST update rolls up these previously released hotfixes:
For more information on these adjustments, refer to this Microsoft KnowledgeBase article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2570791
