Let me comment these comments too.
+# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): +# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP +# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same +# time as Moscow, Russia.
See, the wintering team made Vostok time synchronized with MSK time, that is convenient for communications with AARI. Two years ago I thought over an idea to change Vostok timezone to MSK but I refused that as TV news program wouldn't stream at our lunch time anymore. That time we had an only TV channel, now we have four.
If the observation of a 6 hour difference between McMurdo and Vostok was in the southern hemisphere summer while
New Zealand was on summer time, that observation could be consistent with Vostok observing UTC+7 at the time.
I told I change Vostok timezone for comfortable communications with Progress base that is the center of Russian Antarctic logistics. Years ago the center of our logistics was Mirny base — sledge convoys and aviation started from there. Have a look at Mirny's timezone: https://www.aari.ru/ekspeditsii/rossiyskaya-antarkticheskaya-ekspeditsiya-(r... It is UTC+7. 20.12.2023 08:34, L. David Baron пишет:
On Tuesday 2023-12-19 11:04 -0800, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
-# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): -# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is -# what they had to say about time there: -# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) -# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was -# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead -# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The -# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." One observation about this 22-year-old quote: New Zealand (then and now) observed summer time for roughly half of the year, so "which is 12 hours ahead of GMT" was only correct for the southern hemisphere winter; in the summer New Zealand was 13 hours ahead.
If the observation of a 6 hour difference between McMurdo and Vostok was in the southern hemisphere summer while New Zealand was on summer time, that observation could be consistent with Vostok observing UTC+7 at the time.
-David
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