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As many of you know, Russia has eleven time zones, and has (or will) cut two of them. It is possible that they may end daylight savings time altogether.
Does anyone know if they have cut two time zones, and if daylight savings is now a thing of the past? If so, does daylight savings end in all time zones, or just some?
I maintain some software that may need to be patched and can't find two news sites that agree on if they have, or have not implemented these changes.
My biggest concern is daylight savings.
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Russia has 11 time zones across its vast territory — and its leaders believe that's just too many hours in the day. Russia has 11 time zones across its vast territory — and its leaders believe that's just too many hours in the day.
Apparently, to streamline business relations with Moscow and unite with the rest of the country, Putin swiftly abolished the time zones overnight; subsequently, the Udmurt Republic and Samara Oblast switched from GMT +03:00 to GMT + 04:00, catching up with Moscow.
Russia switched to permanent winter time in 2014 after a failed experiment to put clocks on year-round summer time in 2011. The policy apparently caused health issues in northern Russia, where mornings would remain darker for longer during the winter months.
Large countries like U.S.A,Canada, Australia and Russia have many time zones because they have a large width and a vast East to West extent. Russia has as many as 11 time zones and USA has six zones.
According to wiki article,
On February 8th 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev issued a decree cancelling DST in Russia. Under the decree, all clocks in Russia will advance one hour on March 27th 2011 but will not change back the following October, effectively making Moscow Time UTC+4 permanently.1
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According to Wikipedia:
On March 28, 2010, the following changes were introduced, which, in particular, led to abolition of two of the eleven time zones.
* The Udmurt Republic and Samara Oblast started using Moscow Time, thus eliminating Samara Time.[2][3]
* Kemerovo Oblast started using Omsk Time.[4]
* Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatka Krai started using Magadan Time, thus eliminating Kamchatka Time.[5]
There is no mention of daylight savings being canceled, only that its abolition was proposed.
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