On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:50:39AM -0400, Arthur David Olson wrote: [...]
2. In 2010 much of Russia did not turn its clocks back in the fall. Does
You mean in 2011 I suppose.
anyone know whether folks in Russia now think of themselves as being on "permanent daylight saving time" or think of themselves as having new, different standard times?
Since 2011, most Russian territories have a standard time ahead of mean solar time, including time in some cites ahead it even by two hours. For example, Moscow at ~37°E is ~1:15 ahead of solar time, and St. Petersburg at ~30°E is ~2:00 ahead. How many folks in Russia understand that the current situation rather looks like permanent daylight saving time is hard to say.
As always, references to government documents are best.
http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html (in Russian). Automatic translation http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rg.ru%2... seems to be rough but correct. That is, according to the law, Europe/Moscow is UTC+04 with no daylight saving. -- ldv