Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lousy farmers...
Farmers work whenever they want.
And people haven't been using farm schedules to justify DST for several decades. It's now supposedly about electricity use.
Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)
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Re: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)
#12Good for them. It makes much more sense to shift government/business hours if needed than constantly mucking with the time and screwing up millions of software installations.
can't the OS's handle the change automatically?
Sure, but it's just another point of failure for dubious benefit.
Re: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)
#13Indiana just went to daylight savings a couple of years back. Pissed me off - the new Republican governor said it would attract jobs (which is the reason anybody ever does anything in Indianapolis), and the success of that was predictable.
Re: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)
#14Isn't winter time the standard clock and it's summer time that is the deviation from that? So Russia would be abolishing summer time that is also known as daylight savings time?
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#15I wish they would do that here. As a parent of two small kids I dread the clock changes, it takes forever for them to adjust.
As a father, I completely agree. As a c++ developer I'm counting down to the russian support calls.
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#16That's a great precedent! I hope the US abandons winter time, too.
Lousy farmers...
It's probably not about farmers: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4172
Re: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)
#17That's a great precedent! I hope the US abandons winter time, too.
Winter time is the standard time (i.e. based on solar noon). It's summer time that is moved. Maybe that's only in the US and Russia has the reverse?
As far as I know there is no such thing as winter time.
Russia had standard time (UTC+3) in winter and changed to daylight savings time (UTC+4) at same dates as the rest of Europe. Now they decided never to switch back to UTC+3 but stay UTC+4, effectively making UTC+4 Moscow standard time.
As Moscows longitude is 37 degree East, they should really use UTC+3 as their standard time, but that's a different story.
Re: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)
#18China also maintains the same time year round.
Re: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)
#19Isn't winter time the standard clock and it's summer time that is the deviation from that? So Russia would be abolishing summer time that is also known as daylight savings time?
No. Per the article, they're staying on UTC+4 (aka DST) permanently, rather than falling back to UTC+3 in the winter.
Re: Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)
#20I think the title of this post is incorrect; they're not abolishing DST, they're permanently moving to DST.