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SL150 - Impact of Russian Timezone Changes 2014 (Doc ID 1938685.1)

Last updated on MARCH 17, 2025

Applies to:

StorageTek SL150 Modular Tape Library - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Time Zone Change

Purpose

According to a recent law [link] passed by the government of Russia, Russia will change its existing time zones on October 26, 2014.

1.  Update 7 existing time zones to match with the new ones

New Name of Time Zone

New Display Name

Current Name of Time Zone

Current Display Name

Russia Time Zone 1

(UTC+02:00) Kaliningrad (RTZ 1)

Kaliningrad Standard Time

(UTC+03:00) Kaliningrad, Minsk

Russia Time Zone 2

(UTC+03:00) Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd (RTZ 2)

Russian Standard Time

(UTC+04:00) Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd

Russia Time Zone 4

(UTC+05:00) Ekaterinburg (RTZ 4)

Ekaterinburg Standard Time

(UTC+06:00) Ekaterinburg

Russia Time Zone 5

(UTC+06:00) Novosibirsk (RTZ 5)

N. Central Asia Standard Time

(UTC+07:00) Novosibirsk

Russia Time Zone 6

(UTC+07:00) Krasnoyarsk (RTZ 6)

North Asia Standard Time

(UTC+08:00) Krasnoyarsk

Russia Time Zone 7

(UTC+08:00) Irkutsk (RTZ 7)

North Asia East Standard Time

(UTC+09:00) Irkutsk

Russia Time Zone 8

(UTC+09:00) Yakutsk (RTZ 8)

Yakutsk Standard Time

(UTC+10:00) Yakutsk

Impact on users: None. Users who fall into these new time zones will have their settings automatically updated on Oct 26, 2014.

 

2.  Add 3 new time zones

New Name of Time Zone

New Display Name

Current Name of Time Zone

Current Display Name

Russia Time Zone 3

(UTC+04:00) Izhevsk, Samara (RTZ 3)

N/A

N/A

Russia Time Zone 10

(UTC+11:00) Chokurdakh (RTZ 10)

N/A

N/A

Russia Time Zone 11

(UTC+12:00) Anadyr, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (RTZ 11)

N/A

N/A

Impact on users: Users who fall into these new time zones will need to manually switch to the new time zones, otherwise will remain in the current selected ones which will not be correct anymore for their region after Oct 26, 2014.

 

3.  Merge two existing time zones to a new one

New Name of Time Zone

New Display Name

Current Name of Time Zone

Current Display Name

Russia Time Zone 9

(UTC+10:00) Vladivostok, Magadan (RTZ 9)

Vladivostok Standard Time /

Magadan Standard Time

(UTC+11:00) Vladivostok /

(UTC+12:00) Magadan


 

4.  Create new time zone for Belarus 

Belarus is currently sharing time zone setting with Kaliningrad, so Windows will create a new "Belarus Standard Time" as part of this update.

 

This document covers the engineering response in relation to the SL150 to this change

 

Scope

 Users of SL150

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