Two Fewer Time Zones in Russia

[Josh Wilson]

http://news.kremlin.ru/transcripts/7225

This has been presented as basically the start of a reform of the system -
sort of a test run with more changes possible in the future. 

The problem isn't really just about government as well, my wife works in the
Russian head office of a multinational and complains fairly often that it's
hard to get the information she needs from Irkutsk and Vladivostok because
they are just starting their days when Moscow is finishing its day. 

I don't think it's been mentioned here yet - but there is also some fairly
serious discussion of dropping daylight savings time in Russia as well. 


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I think that at national level the idea had been not so much shelved as put
on the back burner, until such time as someone had the time and inclination
to put together a nation-wide programme.  As I understand it, the changes
that have just taken place are the result of a series of decisions taken at
regional level, which neatly demonstrates how to combine federalism with the
vertical of power.

John Dunn.



-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Beet <stephenrbeet at GMAIL.COM>
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 03:39:30 +0700
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Two Fewer Time Zones in Russia

I heard this story but I thought the idea had been shelved.

2010/3/30 Donald J Loewen <djloewen at binghamton.edu>:
>  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.
> (And I even checked to make sure that this wasn't an early April Fool's
Day
> edition from Kommersant.  A story like this would be a great candidate for
> April 1!)  I'm no geographer, but it seems like a rather complicated
> decision to eliminate two time zones entirely!  I assume that in some
cases
> there is now a two-hour time difference between neighboring time zones, is
> that right?  Interesting that the President proposes it in November and
it's
> in place a few months later!
> All the best,
> Don
>

John Dunn
Honorary Research Fellow, SMLC (Slavonic Studies)
University of Glasgow, Scotland

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