Two Fewer Time Zones in Russia

[Melissa Smith]

That leaves out the old joke about the interim time between socialism 
and communism being "alcoholism." THAT was definitely NOT the time zone 
that was eliminated!

 
On 3/29/10 4:43 PM, David L. Cooper wrote:
> A highly progressive development! I therefore offer this revision of 
my 
> earlier (March 2008) assessment:
> 
> Alina Israeli wrote:
> 
> >
> > 7. Russia covers 11 time zones.
> >
> These include: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Copper, Bronze, 
Iron, 
> ancient, middle, early modern, modern, and postmodern, ...all at the 
> same time....
> 
> Sorry...I couldn't resist...again...
> 
> Donald J Loewen wrote:
> >  I don't know if this has already been mentioned on SEELANGS, but I 
noticed
> > only today that Russia just eliminated some time zones to go from 11 
to 9.
> >   
> 
> -- 
> David L. Cooper
> Assistant Professor
> Slavic Languages and Literatures
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
> Ph: 217-244-4666
> 
> 
> 
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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
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Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
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