On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 08:09:59PM -0400, Andrew Paprocki wrote:
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Arthur David Olson wrote:
I suppose there was no actual clock change. The resolution #725 is not about changing clocks, it contains no such instructions whatsoever.
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia:
As a result [of decree #725] some districts of the Sakha Republic switched from Vladivostok Time to Yakutsk Time (Zone 7): Tomponsky District Ust-Maysky District Some districts switched from Magadan Time to Vladivostok Time: Oymyakonsky District (Sakha Republic) Kurilsky District and Yuzhno-Kurilsky District (Sakhalin Oblast)
These switches are what would require clock changes; the question is, when did they change?
http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2011/09/01/885098.html
"From 2:00 am October 30, 2011 is proposed to transfer Primorsky Krai and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for the seventh time zone (plus 6 hours to Moscow time), and the Irkutsk region - the fifth time zone (plus 4 hours to Moscow time). Today in these regions, the difference in time to Moscow more than one hour."
No, this article talks about a draft resolution (it used to be on http://www.minpromtorg.gov.ru/ site, now you can find its copy at http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia33.html), the final edition neither transfers Primorsky Krai and the Irkutsk region nor specifies the exact date and time of clock changes. -- ldv