[tz] Republic of Belarus is NOT considering time zone change due to Russia's change

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>Hi,
>
>a local news site got a comment from  PR service of Belarussian National Standardization
>Committee that government is currently deciding on the time zone change
>to follow Russia. The decision is not yet made and I was unable to find
>any other source or reference at any governmental site, which is,
>unfortunately, typical.
>
>http://news.tut.by/society/416667.html (in Russian)
Finally, Belarussian government decided against changing to winter time.
It looks like a transport lobby was effective this time and convinced
government that changing time zone is not going to be cost-effective.

Sources (in Russian) all cite PR service of Council of Ministers:
http://naviny.by/rubrics/society/2014/10/08/ic_news_116_446011/
http://ria.ru/world/20141008/1027480997.html
http://news.tut.by/society/418828.html


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/ Alexander Bokovoy