Re: [tz] Astrakhan region got approval to change its time zone

Matt Johnson wrote:

it seems to me that the people living in the region will consider this as a move from Moscow time to Samara time.

I really doubt whether they'll think they're on Samara time. Samara is roughly a 17-hour nonstop drive north. That would be like people in San Diego thinking that they're on Portland time. All this SAMT / VLAT / etc. business is entirely our invention; it has little to do with how the Russians view time zones, or (more importantly) with how they are abbreviated in reliable English-language sources.