28 Mar 2010
Russia cuts time zones to 9

Backwards ClockBut the real story here is this:

Last November, in his annual State of the Nation address, the Russian president proposed an even more radical reform. He suggested not only to cut the number of time zones in Russia but also abolish the current switch to daylight saving time, which the country has been doing since 1981.

Gosh, somebody actually gets it:

"The energy advantages are negligible," he [chief Kremlin economist Arkady Dvorkovich] said, "but the health of the people and their stable biological rhythms is a much more important factor."

I also didn't know that Russia had only been doing DST since 1981 - about the time that they started loosening up and getting more "capitalist"... makes ya wonder, eh?

The world's largest country by land mass is challenging time: This weekend, Russia is cutting the number of its time zones from 11 to 9.

(link) [CNN]

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