[tz] Antarctic research base Vostok local time

[АПС АКУЛОВ]

 >This web page still says that Vostok time is UTC+07:
Well it ts evidently that nobody cares about antarctic timezones but you 
and me.

You see, in fact it doesn't matter which timezone to use at the very 
North or South — half year it is sunny, half year it is dark. So polar 
men have no problems with changing timezone.


 >Could you please fix that web page?

Me — not. I''ll try to find the person who can.


 >or from 02:00 to 00:00 today

This.


 >could you please briefly say why Vostok changed
Convenience.
We constantly interact with Progress base, with company who builds new 
wintering station, with sledge convoys, with aviation — they all use 
UTC+5. Besides, difference between Moscow time is just 2 hours now, not 4.


 >(I hope you have not been at Vostok for 10 years! I'd rather live in 
Siberia, or even in Nebraska. I can joke about this, as I was born in 
Nebraska....)
I have not been to Nebraska but I can joke about it too :)
If it matters — I was burn in Murmansk, a state far beyond the Arctic 
Circle; this is my fifth antarctic wintering; fourth wintering at Vostok 
base; second as the chief of the base.
And my personal achieve is eighty degrees sub zero.


 >Please let us know if you see problems with it

No problems, thanx.
Comments show that polar people may treat timezones rather arbitrary.


19.12.2023 14:42, Paul Eggert пишет:
> On 2023-12-18 19:14, АПС АКУЛОВ wrote:
>>  >Do you have a public announcement on the web, or some other source, 
>> that we can cite?
>> Well AARI weekly publishes Antarctic events summaries here: 
>> https://www.aari.ru/press-center/news/rae .
>>
>> But I am not sure if my case will be mentioned there.
>
> This web page still says that Vostok time is UTC+07:
>
> https://www.aari.ru/ekspeditsii/rossiyskaya-antarkticheskaya-ekspeditsiya-(rae)/vostok 
>
>
> Could you please fix that web page? That would help confirm the 
> change, so that when people ask us for our source, we can direct them 
> to aari.ru.
>
>
>>  >Does "00:00" mean 00:00 local time, or 00:00 UTC?
>>
>> My bad, sorry, I missed this point.
>>
>> Local time, of source.
>
> OK. Did clocks jump back from 00:00 today to 22:00 the previous day, 
> or from 02:00 to 00:00 today?
>
> Also, could you please briefly say why Vostok changed from UTC+07 to 
> UTC+05? I would like to document this in commentary.
>
>
>>  >Has local time at Vostok been UTC+6 ever since 1957, or has it 
>> changed before?
>>
>> No. At least since my antarctic career start, 10 years ago, Vostok 
>> base has UTC+7.
>
> Ouch. TZDB has been wrong for Vostok for at least 10 years. I will try 
> to correct this.
>
> (I hope you have not been at Vostok for 10 years! I'd rather live in 
> Siberia, or even in Nebraska. I can joke about this, as I was born in 
> Nebraska....)
>
> Attached is a draft patch to TZDB to implement these changes. Please 
> let us know if you see problems with it. I have not installed this 
> patch into the TZDB development repository as it is still preliminary.

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