Ukraine, Belarus, and Armenia have decided to discontinue daylight saving time starting from 2011. These countries are mirroring Russia's changes by staying on "summer time" indefinitely and not falling back to "winter time" on October 30th 2011. Microsoft’s guidance to customers in the affected timezones is to move to another windows time zone (referred to as ‘workaround timezone’ in table below). Customers will stay on this workaround time zone until the native timezones are updated in the upcoming cumulative windows time update in December 2011.
No hotfix will be issued in the interim for these changes.
Impacted Country
Native Timezone
Standard Time
Daylight Time
Workaround Timezone (No DST)
Belarus
(UTC+02:00) Minsk
UTC+2:00
UTC+3:00
(UTC +3:00) Kaliningrad
Ukraine
(UTC+02:00) Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius
Armenia
(UTC+04:00) Yerevan
UTC+4:00
UTC+5:00
(UTC+05:00) Tashkent
For more information, refer to this Microsoft KnowledgeBase article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2625508