Kirov on GMT+4?

Jesper Norgaard Welen jnorgard at prodigy.net.mx
Sun May 14 02:12:26 UTC 2006


The Kirov timezone according to the tz database is GMT+3. As you will
remember in an earlier mail I could not find any mention of the timezone
directly in the page of the Kirovskaya oblast' in
http://www.gov-vyatka.ru/
however this page pointed to another page
http://www.gismeteo.ru/weather/towns/27196.htm
that has sunrise and sunset times indicating that Kirov is on GMT+3.

Now I have found a page that points to this same page, but explicitly
defines Kirov as being on GMT+4:
>From main page http://map.rin.ru selecting Kirovskaya obl.
http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main.pl?Region=kirov
you can see just below the link to the www.gismeteo.ru link that it
specifies explicitly GMT+4

The other links confirm what we think for other oblast's in the area:
Samarskaya oblast' on GMT+4:
http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main.pl?Region=samara
Udmurtskaya oblast' on GMT+4:
http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main.pl?Region=udmurt
Volgogradskaya oblast' on GMT+3:
http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main.pl?Region=volga
Astrakhanskaya oblast' on GMT+3:
http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main.pl?Region=astrah
Saratovskaya oblast' on GMT+3:
http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main.pl?Region=saratov
Komi republic on GMT+3:
http://map.rin.ru/cgi-bin/main.pl?Region=komi


This page has a summary of time differences from Moscow time, and shows
Kirov as being on Moscow time, e.g. GMT+3:
http://www.bereg.ru/sprav_info/inform/time.shtml

As we know from an earlier email from Paul Eggert, Shanks & Pottenger (2003)
has Kirov on GMT+4.

I'm afraid Kirov is a difficult case. I have changed it myself in World Time
Explorer 4 times from between GMT+4 and GMT+3:
February 23, 2000   GMT+4 to GMT+3
January 21, 2001    GMT+3 to GMT+4
June 18, 2001       GMT+4 to GMT+3
October 2, 2002     GMT+3 to GMT+4
Each time I was convinced I had found a better source. So who are we to
believe? We have still not found any official russian page that gives the
GMT offset explicitly.

- Jesper

Jesper Nørgaard Welen
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