TimeZone in Russia (daylight saving time)

[Вадим Козлов]

Hello friends!

In Russia in 2011 repealed the daylight saving time.

But, on the resource aprs.fi not correctly set time zone.

For example, Asia/Krasnoyarsk now set GMT+08, but should be GMT+07 without daylight saving time.

Request to the developers to make changes in time zone settings.

Thanks!

73! de R0AU Vadim

[Heikki Hannikainen]

Hello,

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Вадим Козлов wrote:

> Hello friends!In Russia in 2011 repealed the daylight saving time.

> But, on the resource aprs.fi not correctly set time zone.
> For example, Asia/Krasnoyarsk now set GMT+08, but should be GMT+07 without daylight saving time.
> Request to the developers to make changes in time zone settings.

aprs.fi uses the widely used tz database which includes these settings,
and the database is updated together with operating system updates rather
regularly.

I just tested to confirm: went to aprs.fi, Preferences, Units and time,
Timezone: selected Asia/Krasnoyarsk, save, save. After that
https://aprs.fi/info/a/OH7RDA says:

Last position: 2017-03-21 14:36:46 +07 (3m42s ago)
2017-03-21 09:36:46 EET local time at Siilinjärvi, Finland [?]

09:36:46 EET currently is 07:36:46 UTC, and the local time shown for
Asia/Krasnoyarsk is 14:36:46, i.e. 7 hours offset, which should be
correct.

Do you have Asia/Krasnoyarsk timezone in Preferences?

If you did not manually select a timezone, the timezone is guessed based
on your IP address. IP address geolocation is not an exact science and
sometimes may place you in the wrong town and timezone, especially in
larger countries spanning multiple timezones.

- Hessu