I found an interesting article yesterday whilst searching for the weather forecast for Moscow. In February this year President Medvedev announced that on March 27th this year the clocks would move forward to Day Light Saving time for the last time! This means that when the clocks go back at the end of October in the rest of the world, the clocks will stay the same here in Russia! Actual legislation was put in place to abolish the switch between the two times. The time difference will go from 3 hours to 4 hours for RU-UK. This clears up the confusion I had over why my flight would leave Moscow at 11pm RU time, fly 4 hours back to the UK and yet land at Heathrow at 11pm UK time.
The reasoning behind this bizarre legislation is that the time change apparently has a number of serious effects on the health of the Russian population, as well as confusing them. Medvedev said that, "it really disturbs the human biorhythm," and there was me thinking he's a simple politician, who knew the depths of Medvedev's intelligence?
There is an ongoing conflict in Russia over time zones and time currently. Russia boasts 9 different time zones and in 2010 one of the far eastern time zones was abolished in a bid to get the country on central Moscow time.
On a side note it's pouring here in Moscow and has been since the middle of last night. My roommate has a cough and so I had the joyful experience of being woken up a number of times last night, hence why I noticed it started raining at 3am. Apparently it's supposed to be a MAX of 5 degrees on Friday and a min of -3.
The reasoning behind this bizarre legislation is that the time change apparently has a number of serious effects on the health of the Russian population, as well as confusing them. Medvedev said that, "it really disturbs the human biorhythm," and there was me thinking he's a simple politician, who knew the depths of Medvedev's intelligence?
There is an ongoing conflict in Russia over time zones and time currently. Russia boasts 9 different time zones and in 2010 one of the far eastern time zones was abolished in a bid to get the country on central Moscow time.
On a side note it's pouring here in Moscow and has been since the middle of last night. My roommate has a cough and so I had the joyful experience of being woken up a number of times last night, hence why I noticed it started raining at 3am. Apparently it's supposed to be a MAX of 5 degrees on Friday and a min of -3.
