On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:50 AM, SM <sm@resistor.net> wrote:
At 16:44 05-05-2012, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
I suppose there was no actual clock change. The resolution #725 is not about changing clocks, it contains no such instructions whatsoever.
"Most countries set the clock back one hour Sunday 30 October 2011 at 3:00 to a time which actually is the standard time. Russia retains, however, the summer time (UTC+4)." "Most countries" - I don't believe this.
Anyway this refers to DST change, not to decree #725 zone layout, so has no effect on the reasoning at http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-May/017688.html which lead to the conclusion that three uluses in Sakha Republic behaved different to the other uluses in their respective tz zone.
http://russia-media.ru/miscellaneous/morenews.php?iditem=208
"Was scrapping winter time a good move"
www.sptimes.ru/archive/pdf/1693.pdf "He [=Putin] said that although Medvedev had signed the law, it hadn’t been prepared by the president himself and that it was possible that something had not been thought through completely. Putin added that he always finds it difficult to get up in the morning."
-- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/