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Russia Moves From Summer Time To Standard Time
jones_supa writes: Russia's legislature, often accused of metaphorically turning back the clock, has decided to do it literally – abandoning the policy of keeping the country on daylight-saving time all year. The 2011 move to impose permanent "summer time" in 2011 was one of the most memorable and least popular initiatives of Dmitry Medvedev's presidency. It forced tens of millions to travel to their jobs in pitch darkness during the winter. In the depths of December, the sun doesn't clear the horizon in Moscow until 10am. The State Duma, the lower house of parliament, voted 442-1 on Tuesday to return to standard time this autumn and stay there all year.
The article also discusses a ban on swearing in books, plays, and films that went into effect today in Russia.
Fuck that.
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Russia has very short summer
They knew that people will be swearing when the new time will become official, as such they made two laws at the same time. Russians themselves are, actually, unhappy and in their view this is a pure restriction of the free speech.
in Russia, TIME TELLS YOU
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So... How is this even tangentially related to being newsworthy for a tech site? Like, seriously, WTF?!
Every March a story about DST is posted on /. and the posts are about 3 to 1 against the entire concept of turning clocks ahead and back twice a year. Big waste of time and money, government bureaucrats looking to justify additional staff, etc.
Hey, maybe the coders and IT admins here don't know everything about everything even when they reach a consensus? Nah... couldn't be.
Next lets hope that the US, Canda, and Europe abandon DSL.
Consider the inherent illogical move of banning words. Everybody has to know the words if you want to ban them. They have to know the banned word in order to not use it, thus someone has to use it, to teach them not to use it !? One assumes Russian will simply use the English words khuy (cock), pizda (cunt), yebat (to fuck) and blyad (whore) instead.
Surely the craziness of teaching people words they are not allowed to use to make sure they can adhere to the law and not use them will dawn on them.
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This is how we do it in Saskatchewan. Permanent CST (Central Standard Time). And that's how we like it.
We also have tempurature ranges from -45ÂC to +45ÂC,and 9 months of winter, 3 months of potholes. :-)
"It forced tens of millions to travel to their jobs in pitch darkness during the winter." This is called "living in northern latitudes", people have been doing it for millennia. It also forces millions to "suffer" through really long summer days. Those of us who live in NYC also call it the "running of the boobies' and you can pry it from our cold, dead hands.
What is more concerning is your switch from ranting about day light savings time to an aside about censoring, well, everything.
Shifting time an hour is the act of a mad-man but telling other people what they can say and how they can express themselves is an aside? You should get your priorities in order.
In Russia? Are you fucking kidding me? The Russians are artistes of swearing! No joke, they have a 2 or 3 syllable short little word which translates roughly to "strike on the cunt with a spatula", just for one example...
DST should be eliminated. So should time zones. I live pretty far north, where your days get shortened more than an average american, but i dont use DST since i moved here and its awesome. but why even have time zones? it was basically a system for "high noon" being the same in places, aka: sundial based. who cares if you work 9-5 or 2-10 or 16-00. its still 8 hours. and it would be magically delicious
In Putin's Russia, time fucks you.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Some things have their own time implementations. Other things are not updated without manual intervention.
Personally I see some merit in the Chinese option of having the entire place on Beijing time and adjusting work hours regionally instead - or just doing everything on UTC for the rest of us.
I can't wait for them to publish the list of words that are illegal to publish...
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Who was the one legislator that voted against going back to standard time?
Pisdovonyuchka!
Say it. Love it.
All of Russia's problems are solved!
Hail UTC. Everyone should use it. I mean, what's in a number for keeping track when you have to do stuff? Local time is hard enough and then comes daylight saving. Ever travelled by boat from Europe main land to the British isles? Ever had to calculate tides and/or water flow? Ever had an uncomfortable/critical email exchange between Europe and British isles (where the feet-dragger typically abuses any possible source of unclarity)?
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Lacy underwear is banned. http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02... You may laugh at a regulation like this, but it went into effect yesterday.
Suspected of anti-government activities.
The State Duma, the lower house of parliament, voted 442-1 on Tuesday to return to standard time this autumn and stay there all year.
Great move! And I guess that means it will take another three years before it sinks in that DST does still make sense in summer, when instead of being woken up by daylight two or three hours before the workday begins, you can have that extra summer daylight at the end of the day, when you can actually enjoy it in peace.
The mainstream media is distracting you from what's really going on is Russia.
Anyhow, before condemning their new laws, have a look that what the FCC says.
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/obsc...
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In other news, the one holdout was also revealed to be the one dentist who didn't recommend sugarless gum (for patients who chew gum).
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The 2005 changes to daylight saving time policy in the USA had a small effect on energy-consumption. Presumably there will be some effect in Russia, too.
Funny how everybody suddenly loves DST now that Russia is abandoning it completely.
So from now on they’ll have the luxury of seeing a glimpse of the sun when they drive to work, yet they’ll have to resort to pitch black darkness when they get back. In summer, the sun will rise at 4 in the morning and it will be dark before nine in the evening. It won’t be long till there is a popular backlash against it – people will demand their DST back because they want their beauty sleep unimpeded by the overly early sunrise, and they want their evenings to be light longer.
At least that’s precisely what happened in my country when the government abolished DST for a couple of years. Plus there were ramifications regarding time differences with adjacent countries that had previously been in the same timezone. All in all, the experience that looked nice on paper (and I was initially for it) turned out horribly wrong. Even DST all year round (in effect moving the timezone one zone eastwards) is a saner approach, as long as humans are involved.
time moves YOU. Oh, wait...
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