Posted on 10/25/2014 5:49:27 PM PDT by goldstategop
Russia will turn back its clocks for the last time on Sunday to permanently adopt winter hours.
It will also increase its time zones from nine to 11, from the Pacific to the borders of the European Union.
For the last three years, Russia experimented with keeping permanent summer time, but it proved to be highly unpopular with many Russians.
The Soviet Union introduced Daylight Saving Time in 1981.
In 2011, then President Dmitry Medvedev introduced measures to reduce Russia's time zones to nine, and to keep summer time all year round.
Russians put their clocks forward one hour but did not put them back in winter time.
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That is my all time favorite commercial.I just looked it up on the web about 2 weeks ago to show to my teenage daughter.
It remains to be seen if they’ll go back to Soviet Union style command and control.
Wish we would go back to Standard Time and leave it there. This last adjustment leaving DST until November is just stupid.
Idiotic politicians.
in those state in which the populace can put forth propositions.we need to put “daylight savings”..on the ballot.
my proposition would read
“California will recognize standard time”
Agreed. The only people up this way with the right idea on this live in Saskatchewan. They keep their clocks the same all year long. They figure the rest of the country can do what ever they want to do.
Too bad we can’t put it to a vote !
“Time, flowing like a river. Time, beckoning me.”
Back before political correctness when we had a pair.
Supposedly there was a standing joke in the Soviet military that Soviet watches were the fastest in the world.
Bravo for Russia. DST is stupid. Hope we follow soon.
I never "sprung forward" last spring.
Just another week and I'm good to go
I despise daylight savings time—especially now, when it’s as dark as midnight when I get up in the morning.
I understand that lobbying by the company that manufactures Kingsford barbecue charcoal was a major factor in expanding it from early March to beyond Halloween a few years ago—and that’s why I never buy their product.
LOL
I love Daylight Savings time. Only folks that don’t like it are the ones who go to the Early Bird specials. Once they get done they want to go to bed at 6pm but the sun’s still up.
Slackers.
DST=Annoying useless ritual that makes everyone's biological clock go a skew 2 times a year.
I don't mind so much turning the clocks back an hour, but, I HATE losing that hour in the spring-turns me into a grumbling grouch for almost a week. Don't see why we can't leave well enough alone.
It iz...svimver...(very nice)
:) My son has been quoting those memes constantly!
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