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

Alexander Bokovoy abokovoy at redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 05:25:14 UTC 2014


On Thu, 09 Oct 2014, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>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
And here is source in English:
http://eng.belta.by/all_news/society/Belarus-decides-against-adjusting-time-in-Russias-wake_i_76335.html

-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy


More information about the tz mailing list