March 8, 2005
12:04 a.m.
Ken Pizzini <"tz."@explicate.org> writes:
[Did any country which used the Julian calendar in the last 100 years or so (e.g., Tsarist Russia) ever observe daylight saving transitions based on that system of dates?]
Yes. For example, according to our current data Moscow observed daylight-saving time in 1917, when the Julian calendar was still the de facto and de jure calendar. This was back when Moscow was normally 2 hours, 30 minutes, 48 seconds ahead of GMT. This wasn't "Tsarist Russia", though, as the Tsar was overthrown before daylight-saving time was introduced. Russia is a bit of a special case. It didn't even adopt the _Julian_ calendar until 1700! (It used the Byzantine calendar before that.)