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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Given the amount of money lost by business due to the time changes, those are some really poor capitalists.
Could always move to Arizona :-)
Down with DST. With our various latitudes and working conditions, we could best adjust our own activities to clocks fixed at the same time throughout the year. DST is a disruption twice a year and yet another inhibitor against new, domestic production competition. As for production, it should be more distributed, community-based and far less centralized, and it will be, one way or another.
I hate daylight savings time.
There have been studies that show that heart attacks and car wrecks take an about two week spike after each time change.
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