Correction for Russia: The said decree #725 sets the reference time for the timezones in Russia (/chasovye zony/). The reference time is named "Moscow time" and defined as UTC+4. Kaliningrad is in the 1st (Russia's) timezone which's defined as "Moscow time minus 1". Moscow itself is in the 2nd (Russia's) timezone, which's defined as "Moscow time". Belarus: The government resolution #1229 issued Sep 15, 2011 doesn't name the new standard time specifically but says "time measurement (/ischislyeniye/) is to be conducted according with the international timezones system, by the zonal time (/poyasnoye vryemya/) plus 1 hour, with no observing of the seasonal time (/syezonnoye vryemya/)". [http://www.government.by/ru/solutions/1694] Also there exists a half-formal expression "time in Minsk" (alternatively "Minsk time"). Only half-formal because it's used, e.g., in state radio "precise time chimes" ("It's 12 o'clock precisely in Minsk"), but I don't think there's any reference document for this. And, like I said before, Western abbreviations of EE.T nature are known prevailingly to IT specialists here. -Yury On 09/27/2011 07:02 AM, Arthur David Olson wrote:
I'm asking for information to use in specifying time zone abbreviations for Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. ...