Re coming Russian-Belarusian-Ukrainian timezone change
Yury Tarasievich
yury.tarasievich at gmail.com
Sat Sep 24 06:24:06 UTC 2011
On 09/24/2011 12:01 AM, Steve Allen wrote:
> On Fri 2011-09-23T22:53:10 +0200, Tobias Conradi hath writ:
>> IIRC UTC and not GMT is the basis for most time legislation that is
>> currently in place.
>
> It would be interesting to find reliable indicators about whether UTC
> or GMT is the basis in any given region. Even recently I've seen
> official decrees using the geographic terms "meridian" and "Greenwich".
The (semantic) distinction between Greenwich and
Universal time is just one of those subtleties
that gets usually lost in these parts of the
world. The expression "(time) by Greenwich" (/po
Grinvichu/) is established in the language
(which's why I used it instead of UTC, which was
incorrect technically).
In fact, the standard nomenclature here (in
Russian) is "0th meridian" and "time belts".
There are 24 "time belts" (/chasovoy poyas/)
approximately corresponding to 15 deg. wide
meridianal stripes.
As to the potential users: I'd guess that almost
the only folks *here* really knowing the meaning
of EEST/EEDT abbreviature are the IT specialists
and most of the unix users. Windows users know
how to select UTC+2 (Minsk,Athens,...) from the
list.
-Yury
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