Kazakhstan
From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin No. 11
<http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm> (2005-03-21):
The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing
daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health
complications coupled with a decrease in productivity.
From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28):
... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone
was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has
two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone
closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the
same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtöbe, Atyraū,
Mangghystaū, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses
everything else.... I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones
de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively.
From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-27):
Review of the linked documents from http://adilet.zan.kz/
produced the following data for post-1991 Kazakhstan:
0. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR
from 1991-02-04 No. 20
http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102010545
removed the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of the USSR
starting with the last Sunday of March 1991.
It also allowed (but not mandated) Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Tajik SSR,
Turkmen SSR and Uzbek SSR to not have "summer" time.
The 1992-01-13 act also refers to the act of the Cabinet of Ministers
of the Kazakh SSR from 1991-03-20 No. 170 "About the act of the Cabinet
of Ministers of the USSR from 1991-02-04 No. 20" but I didn't found its
text.
According to Izvestia newspaper No. 68 (23334) from 1991-03-20
-- page 6; available at http://libinfo.org/newsr/newsr2574.djvu via
http://libinfo.org/index.php?id=58564 -- on 1991-03-31 at 2:00 during
transition to "summer" time:
Republic of Georgia, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, SSR Moldova,
Estonian SSR; Komi ASSR; Kaliningrad oblast; Nenets autonomous okrug
were to move clocks 1 hour forward.
Kazakh SSR (excluding Uralsk oblast); Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Tajik
SSR; Andijan, Jizzakh, Namangan, Sirdarya, Tashkent, Fergana oblasts
of the Uzbek SSR were to move clocks 1 hour backwards.
Other territories were to not move clocks.
When the "summer" time would end on 1991-09-29, clocks were to be
moved 1 hour backwards on the territory of the USSR excluding
Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenia, Tajikistan.
Apparently there were last minute changes. Apparently Kazakh act No. 170
was one of such changes.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Декретное_время
claims that Sovetskaya Rossiya newspaper on 1991-03-29 published that
Nenets autonomous okrug, Komi and Kazakhstan (excluding Uralsk oblast)
were to not move clocks and Uralsk oblast was to move clocks
forward; on 1991-09-29 Kazakhstan was to move clocks backwards.
(Probably there were changes even after that publication. There is an
article claiming that Kaliningrad oblast decided on 1991-03-29 to not
move clocks.)
This implies that on 1991-03-31 Asia/Oral remained on +04/+05 while
the rest of Kazakhstan switched from +06/+07 to +05/06 or from +05/06
to +04/+05. It's unclear how Qyzylorda oblast moved into the fifth
time belt. (By switching from +04/+05 to +05/+06 on 1991-09-29?) ...
1. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 1992-01-13 No. 28
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000028_
(text includes modification from the 1996 act)
introduced new rules for calculation of time, mirroring Russian
1992-01-08 act. It specified that time would be calculated
according to time belts plus extra hour ("decree time"), moved clocks
on the whole territory of Kazakhstan 1 hour forward on 1992-01-19 at
2:00, specified DST rules. It acknowledged that Kazakhstan was
located in the fourth and the fifth time belts and specified the
border between them to be located east of Qostanay and Aktyubinsk
oblasts (notably including Turgai and Qyzylorda oblasts into the fifth
time belt).
This means switch on 1992-01-19 at 2:00 from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for
Asia/Aqtau, Asia/Aqtobe, Asia/Oral, Atyraū and Qostanay oblasts; from
+05/+06 to +06/+07 for Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qyzylorda (and Arkalyk)....
2. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 1992-03-27 No. 284
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000284_
cancels extra hour ("decree time") for Uralsk and Qyzylorda oblasts
since the last Sunday of March 1992, while keeping them in the fourth
and the fifth time belts respectively.
3. Order of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 1994-09-23 No. 384
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/R940000384_
cancels the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of Mangghystaū
oblast since the last Sunday of September 1994 (saying that time on
the territory would correspond to the third time belt as a
result)....
4. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 1996-05-08 No. 575
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P960000575_
amends the 1992-01-13 act to end summer time in October instead
of September, mirroring identical Russian change from 1996-04-23 act.
5. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 1999-03-26 No. 305
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P990000305_
cancels the extra hour ("decree time") for Atyraū oblast since the
last Sunday of March 1999 while retaining the oblast in the fourth
time belt.
This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05....
6. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 2000-11-23 No. 1749
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P000001749_/23.11.2000
replaces the previous five documents.
The only changes I noticed are in definition of the border between the
fourth and the fifth time belts. They account for changes in spelling
and administrative division (splitting of Turgai oblast in 1997
probably changed time in territories incorporated into Qostanay oblast
(including Arkalyk) from +06/+07 to +05/+06) and move Qyzylorda oblast
from being in the fifth time belt and not using decree time into the
fourth time belt (no change in practice).
7. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 2003-12-29 No. 1342
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P030001342_
modified the 2000-11-23 act. No relevant changes, apparently.
8. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 2004-07-20 No. 775
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P040000775_/20.07.2004
modified the 2000-11-23 act to move Qostanay and Qyzylorda oblasts into
the fifth time belt and add Aktobe oblast to the list of regions not
using extra hour ("decree time"), leaving Kazakhstan with only 2 time
zones (+04/+05 and +06/+07). The changes were to be implemented
during DST transitions in 2004 and 2005 but the acts got radically
amended before implementation happened.
9. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 2004-09-15 No. 1059
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P040001059_
modified the 2000-11-23 act to remove exceptions from the "decree time"
(leaving Kazakhstan in +05/+06 and +06/+07 zones), amended the
2004-07-20 act to implement changes for Atyraū, West Kazakhstan,
Qostanay, Qyzylorda and Mangghystaū oblasts by not moving clocks
during the 2004 transition to "winter" time.
This means transition from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for Atyraū oblast (no
zone currently), Asia/Oral, Asia/Aqtau and transition from +05/+06 to
+06/+07 for Qostanay oblast (Qostanay and Arkalyk, no zones currently)
and Asia/Qyzylorda on 2004-10-31 at 3:00....
10. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan
from 2005-03-15 No. 231
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P050000231_
removes DST provisions from the 2000-11-23 act, removes most of the
(already implemented) provisions from the 2004-07-20 and 2004-09-15
acts, comes into effect 10 days after official publication.
The only practical effect seems to be the abolition of the summer
time.
Unamended version of the act of the Government of the Russian Federation
No. 23 from 1992-01-08 [See 'europe' file for details].
Kazakh 1992-01-13 act appears to provide the same rules and 1992-03-27
act was to be enacted on the last Sunday of March 1992.
From Stepan Golosunov (2016-11-08):
Turgai reorganization should affect only southern part of Qostanay
oblast. Which should probably be separated into Asia/Arkalyk zone.
(There were also 1970, 1988 and 1990 Turgai oblast reorganizations
according to wikipedia.)
[For Qostanay] http://www.ng.kz/gazeta/195/hranit/
suggests that clocks were to be moved 40 minutes backwards on
1920-01-01 to the fourth time belt. But I do not understand
how that could happen....
[For Atyrau and Oral] 1919 decree
(http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia-1919-02-08.html
and in Byalokoz) lists Ural river (plus 10 versts on its left bank) in
the third time belt (before 1930 this means +03).
From Alexander Konzurovski (2018-12-20):
(Asia/Qyzylorda) is changing its time zone from UTC+6 to UTC+5
effective December 21st, 2018....
http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P1800000817 (russian language).
From Zhanbolat Raimbekov (2024-01-19):
Kazakhstan (all parts) switching to UTC+5 on March 1, 2024
https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mti/press/news/details/688998?lang=ru
[in Russian]
(2024-01-20): https://primeminister.kz/ru/decisions/19012024-20
From Alexander Krivenyshev (2024-01-19):
According to a different news and the official web site for the Ministry of
Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan:
https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-to-switch-to-single-hour-zone-mar-1-54ad0b/
Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan
This includes Abai/Abay (ISO 3166-2 code KZ-10), Aqmola/Akmola (KZ-11),
Almaty (KZ-19), Almaty city (KZ-75), Astana city (KZ-71),
East Kazakhstan (KZ-63), Jambyl/Zhambyl (KZ-31), Jetisu/Zhetysu (KZ-33),
Karaganda (KZ-35), North Kazakhstan (KZ-59), Pavlodar (KZ-55),
Shymkent city (KZ-79), Turkistan (KZ-61), and Ulytau (KZ-62). Attributed Statements:
Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-27):
Review of the linked documents from http://adilet.zan.kz/ produced the following data for post-1991 Kazakhstan: 0. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR from 1991-02-04 No. 20 http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102010545 removed the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of the USSR starting with the last Sunday of March 1991. It also allowed (but not mandated) Kazakh SSR, Kirghiz SSR, Tajik SSR, Turkmen SSR and Uzbek SSR to not have "summer" time. The 1992-01-13 act also refers to the act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kazakh SSR from 1991-03-20 No. 170 "About the act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR from 1991-02-04 No. 20" but I didn't found its text. According to Izvestia newspaper No. 68 (23334) from 1991-03-20 -- page 6; available at http://libinfo.org/newsr/newsr2574.djvu via http://libinfo.org/index.php?id=58564 -- on 1991-03-31 at 2:00 during transition to "summer" time: Republic of Georgia, Latvian SSR, Lithuanian SSR, SSR Moldova, Estonian SSR; Komi ASSR; Kaliningrad oblast; Nenets autonomous okrug were to move clocks 1 hour forward. Kazakh SSR (excluding Uralsk oblast); Republic of Kyrgyzstan, Tajik SSR; Andijan, Jizzakh, Namangan, Sirdarya, Tashkent, Fergana oblasts of the Uzbek SSR were to move clocks 1 hour backwards. Other territories were to not move clocks. When the "summer" time would end on 1991-09-29, clocks were to be moved 1 hour backwards on the territory of the USSR excluding Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenia, Tajikistan. Apparently there were last minute changes. Apparently Kazakh act No. 170 was one of such changes. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Декретное_время claims that Sovetskaya Rossiya newspaper on 1991-03-29 published that Nenets autonomous okrug, Komi and Kazakhstan (excluding Uralsk oblast) were to not move clocks and Uralsk oblast was to move clocks forward; on 1991-09-29 Kazakhstan was to move clocks backwards. (Probably there were changes even after that publication. There is an article claiming that Kaliningrad oblast decided on 1991-03-29 to not move clocks.) This implies that on 1991-03-31 Asia/Oral remained on +04/+05 while the rest of Kazakhstan switched from +06/+07 to +05/06 or from +05/06 to +04/+05. It's unclear how Qyzylorda oblast moved into the fifth time belt. (By switching from +04/+05 to +05/+06 on 1991-09-29?) ... 1. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 1992-01-13 No. 28 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000028_ (text includes modification from the 1996 act) introduced new rules for calculation of time, mirroring Russian 1992-01-08 act. It specified that time would be calculated according to time belts plus extra hour ("decree time"), moved clocks on the whole territory of Kazakhstan 1 hour forward on 1992-01-19 at 2:00, specified DST rules. It acknowledged that Kazakhstan was located in the fourth and the fifth time belts and specified the border between them to be located east of Qostanay and Aktyubinsk oblasts (notably including Turgai and Qyzylorda oblasts into the fifth time belt). This means switch on 1992-01-19 at 2:00 from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for Asia/Aqtau, Asia/Aqtobe, Asia/Oral, Atyraū and Qostanay oblasts; from +05/+06 to +06/+07 for Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qyzylorda (and Arkalyk).... 2. Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 1992-03-27 No. 284 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P920000284_ cancels extra hour ("decree time") for Uralsk and Qyzylorda oblasts since the last Sunday of March 1992, while keeping them in the fourth and the fifth time belts respectively. 3. Order of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 1994-09-23 No. 384 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/R940000384_ cancels the extra hour ("decree time") on the territory of Mangghystaū oblast since the last Sunday of September 1994 (saying that time on the territory would correspond to the third time belt as a result).... 4. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 1996-05-08 No. 575 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P960000575_ amends the 1992-01-13 act to end summer time in October instead of September, mirroring identical Russian change from 1996-04-23 act. 5. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 1999-03-26 No. 305 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P990000305_ cancels the extra hour ("decree time") for Atyraū oblast since the last Sunday of March 1999 while retaining the oblast in the fourth time belt. This means change from +05/+06 to +04/+05.... 6. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 2000-11-23 No. 1749 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P000001749_/23.11.2000 replaces the previous five documents. The only changes I noticed are in definition of the border between the fourth and the fifth time belts. They account for changes in spelling and administrative division (splitting of Turgai oblast in 1997 probably changed time in territories incorporated into Qostanay oblast (including Arkalyk) from +06/+07 to +05/+06) and move Qyzylorda oblast from being in the fifth time belt and not using decree time into the fourth time belt (no change in practice). 7. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 2003-12-29 No. 1342 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P030001342_ modified the 2000-11-23 act. No relevant changes, apparently. 8. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 2004-07-20 No. 775 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/archive/docs/P040000775_/20.07.2004 modified the 2000-11-23 act to move Qostanay and Qyzylorda oblasts into the fifth time belt and add Aktobe oblast to the list of regions not using extra hour ("decree time"), leaving Kazakhstan with only 2 time zones (+04/+05 and +06/+07). The changes were to be implemented during DST transitions in 2004 and 2005 but the acts got radically amended before implementation happened. 9. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 2004-09-15 No. 1059 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P040001059_ modified the 2000-11-23 act to remove exceptions from the "decree time" (leaving Kazakhstan in +05/+06 and +06/+07 zones), amended the 2004-07-20 act to implement changes for Atyraū, West Kazakhstan, Qostanay, Qyzylorda and Mangghystaū oblasts by not moving clocks during the 2004 transition to "winter" time. This means transition from +04/+05 to +05/+06 for Atyraū oblast (no zone currently), Asia/Oral, Asia/Aqtau and transition from +05/+06 to +06/+07 for Qostanay oblast (Qostanay and Arkalyk, no zones currently) and Asia/Qyzylorda on 2004-10-31 at 3:00.... 10. Act of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 2005-03-15 No. 231 http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P050000231_ removes DST provisions from the 2000-11-23 act, removes most of the (already implemented) provisions from the 2004-07-20 and 2004-09-15 acts, comes into effect 10 days after official publication. The only practical effect seems to be the abolition of the summer time. Unamended version of the act of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 23 from 1992-01-08 [See 'europe' file for details]. Kazakh 1992-01-13 act appears to provide the same rules and 1992-03-27 act was to be enacted on the last Sunday of March 1992.
Stepan Golosunov (2016-11-08):
Turgai reorganization should affect only southern part of Qostanay oblast. Which should probably be separated into Asia/Arkalyk zone. (There were also 1970, 1988 and 1990 Turgai oblast reorganizations according to wikipedia.) [For Qostanay] http://www.ng.kz/gazeta/195/hranit/ suggests that clocks were to be moved 40 minutes backwards on 1920-01-01 to the fourth time belt. But I do not understand how that could happen.... [For Atyrau and Oral] 1919 decree (http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia-1919-02-08.html and in Byalokoz) lists Ural river (plus 10 versts on its left bank) in the third time belt (before 1930 this means +03).
Alexander Konzurovski (2018-12-20):
(Asia/Qyzylorda) is changing its time zone from UTC+6 to UTC+5 effective December 21st, 2018.... http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P1800000817 (russian language).
Zhanbolat Raimbekov (2024-01-19):
Kazakhstan (all parts) switching to UTC+5 on March 1, 2024 https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/mti/press/news/details/688998?lang=ru [in Russian] (2024-01-20): https://primeminister.kz/ru/decisions/19012024-20
Alexander Krivenyshev (2024-01-19):
According to a different news and the official web site for the Ministry of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan: https://en.inform.kz/news/kazakhstan-to-switch-to-single-hour-zone-mar-1-54ad0b/ Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan This includes Abai/Abay (ISO 3166-2 code KZ-10), Aqmola/Akmola (KZ-11), Almaty (KZ-19), Almaty city (KZ-75), Astana city (KZ-71), East Kazakhstan (KZ-63), Jambyl/Zhambyl (KZ-31), Jetisu/Zhetysu (KZ-33), Karaganda (KZ-35), North Kazakhstan (KZ-59), Pavlodar (KZ-55), Shymkent city (KZ-79), Turkistan (KZ-61), and Ulytau (KZ-62).
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