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[release]MOSCOW — Russia's president thought the country had too much time on its hands, so on Sunday he eliminated two of its 11 time zones.
The changes mean that Chukotka — Russia's eastern extreme, just across the Bering Strait from Alaska — is now nine hours ahead of Russia's westernmost area, the Kaliningrad exclave sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland. Formerly, there was 10 hours' difference.
As well as eliminating the time zone that previously covered the Chukotka and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky regions in the Pacific Far East, President Dmitry Medvedev ordered that Samara and Udmurtia, two regions in central Russia, should be on the same time as Moscow.
The changes went into effect before dawn Sunday when most of Russia switched to daylight savings time. People in the eliminated time zones didn't move their clocks an hour ahead.
Medvedev initiated the change in his state of the nation address last November, prompting some criticism that he was addressing marginal issues at the expense of the country's array of problems.
But Medvedev said the change would help some far-flung regions have more efficient communications with the central authorities, ease travel and even improve the country's international position
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:ussr:
Huh?
[editline]11:55PM[/editline]
How can they do that withou- Actually, I won't ask. :ussr:
I'm sure this will be really useful, and that the russians are really pleased with this result.
hmmmm.
I dont really see how they can do this
In soviet russia, time is subjective!
:downsrim:
Good for them.
[editline]03:10PM[/editline]
I think.... :raise:
What the- How do you actually-? Nevermind.
It's the Russian's secret war plans :tinfoil:
It's party time all the time in Russia
Hmm, i suppose cutting an hour off the time difference will make communication and cross country liasons easier, but i thought daylight savings and time zones were used to ensure, originally anyway, that farmers / agricultural workers had enough time to harvest and plant in the day?
So doesn't that mean that every map on earth that shows timezones is now technically out of date just because Medvedev says so?
[QUOTE=markg06;21012133]So doesn't that mean that every map on earth that shows timezones is now technically out of date just because Medvedev says so?[/QUOTE]
I heavily doubt that the world will care about this decision, the different time zones still exist, no matter what they do.
Wouldn't the places with eliminated time zones see the sun set/rise at odd hours now?
[QUOTE=markg06;21012133]So doesn't that mean that every map on earth that shows timezones is now technically out of date just because Medvedev says so?[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure countries can shift time zones around within their borders all they want. For example, my town is in Saskatchewan but because it's within a few kilometres of a city in Manitoba we adhere to Manitoba's daylight savings time (and time zone) rules. All they did is make a little bendy thing in the time zone's border.
All Russia is doing is merging a few.
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[QUOTE=Rasrap Smurf;21012192]Wouldn't the places with eliminated time zones see the sun set/rise at odd hours now?[/QUOTE]
Ugh
Clocks don't affect the sun
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21012215]Ugh
Clocks don't affect the sun[/QUOTE]
Yes but having your clocks two hours different than they would have been before would mean that to you, it would get lighter/darker two hours earlier or later than it would have before.
Say you usually go to bed at 10 p.m, it would either be two hours lighter or darker (can't be bother to work out which) then usual.
Thank you for assuming I was a retard instead of taking a few extra seconds to think what else I could have meant.
[QUOTE=Rasrap Smurf;21012257]Yes but having your clocks two hours different than they would have been before would mean that to you, it would get lighter/darker two hours earlier or later than it would have before.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's what daylight savings time already does. It's not a hard adjustment to make.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21012215]I'm pretty sure countries can shift time zones around within their borders all they want. For example, my town is in Saskatchewan but because it's within a few kilometres of a city in Manitoba we adhere to Manitoba's daylight savings time rules. All they did is make a little bendy thing in the time zone's border.
All Russia is doing is merging a few.
[editline]08:21AM[/editline]
Ugh
Clocks don't affect the sun[/QUOTE]
If you get up at at a certain time routinely, it will be different
[editline]12:24AM[/editline]
you people are quick
[QUOTE=VanillaBear;21012265]If you get up at at a certain time routinely, it will be different
[editline]12:24AM[/editline]
you people are quick[/QUOTE]
You'd only really have to adjust once.
To make what Russia did more easily understandable, they just gave a few of the time zone areas within their country a permanent daylight savings time.
[editline]08:26AM[/editline]
And before anyone gets their shit in a knot I know the difference between time zones and daylight savings time laws
Sounds fun to be living in Russia right now
The news report told me nothing.
I still do not understand.
I'm not sure why they'd do this, but at least the time zones were removed in the scarcely-populated Eastern regions, not more major population centers.
mindfuck
[QUOTE=Mr_Sun;21012004]hmmmm.
I dont really see how they can do this[/QUOTE]
Not really hard.
I don't see why we even need time zones.
[QUOTE=Kybalt;21016065]I don't see why we even need time zones.[/QUOTE]
You can't be serious.
[QUOTE=johanz;21016169]You can't be serious.[/QUOTE]
:colbert:
I love Russia. They're so kooky sometimes.
[QUOTE=Kybalt;21016209]:colbert:[/QUOTE]
You know that bright sun at 3am is not natural?
Was the idea of time zones too complicated for the Russians populace, or something?
[QUOTE=Kybalt;21016065]I don't see why we even need time zones.[/QUOTE]
What? It's because the sun doesn't turn off at the same time for everyone, so times are relative to the sun setting and stuff
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