Comment on Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST)parentComments−griftah15yNo. USSR was always divided into several time zones. Moscow time is just a soviet analog of GMT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia#Developments−rdl15yAh! You're right -- but a lot more civilian-visible things (train schedules, etc.) were specified in Moscow Time throughout the USSR, whereas in the US it is very rare to use Zulu time/UTC or even DC time for anything.
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No. USSR was always divided into several time zones. Moscow time is just a soviet analog of GMT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia#Developments
Ah! You're right -- but a lot more civilian-visible things (train schedules, etc.) were specified in Moscow Time throughout the USSR, whereas in the US it is very rare to use Zulu time/UTC or even DC time for anything.