September 2016 time zone change for Novosibirsk

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Summary

Russia recently announced that the Novosibirsk region will be moving from UTC +06:00 to UTC +07:00 on July 24 at 02:00. Also, the Omsk time zone has been created for the UTC +06:00 offset.

Time zone key name	New display name
N. Central Asia Standard Time	(UTC+07:00) Novosibirsk
Omsk Standard Time	(UTC+06:00) Omsk

Note Neither time zone observes daylight saving time.

This update applies to the following operating systems:

Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows 8.1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Windows 7 SP1
Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Windows Vista SP2

Note To get the update for Windows 10, install the latest cumulative updates that are listed in the Windows 10 update history page.

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Resolution

The update provides the changes for the Novosibirsk and Omsk time zones for 2016.

For information about how DST changes may affect other Microsoft products, go to the following Microsoft website:

General information about DST

For more information about how DST changes may affect other Microsoft products, click the following article number to go to the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

914387 How to configure daylight saving time for Microsoft Windows operating systems

Note When you apply this update, you may receive a message that resembles the following:

Update cannot be installed as a newer or same time zone update has already been installed on the system.

This message indicates that either you have already applied the correct update or Windows Updates or Microsoft Update has automatically installed this update. No additional action is required to update the Windows operating system.

Update information

How to obtain this update

The following files are available for download and installation from the Microsoft Download Center.

Operating system	Update
All supported x86-based versions of Windows 8.1	Download the package now.
All supported x64-based versions of Windows 8.1	Download the package now.
All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2012 R2	Download the package now.
All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2012	Download the package now.
All supported x86-based versions of Windows 7	Download the package now.
All supported x64-based versions of Windows 7	Download the package now.
All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2	Download the package now.
All supported IA-64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2	Download the package now.
All supported x86-based versions of Windows Vista	Download the package now.
All supported x64-based versions of Windows Vista	Download the package now.
All supported x86-based versions of Windows Server 2008	Download the package now.
All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008	Download the package now.
All supported IA-64-based versions of Windows Server 2008	Download the package now.

Download information

For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to go to the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services

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