[tz] Antarctic research base Vostok local time

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Let me comment these comments too.

 >+# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15):
 >+# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP
 >+# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same
 >+# time as Moscow, Russia.

See, the wintering team made Vostok time synchronized with MSK time, 
that is convenient for communications with AARI.

Two years ago I thought over an idea to change Vostok timezone to MSK 
but I refused that as TV news program wouldn't stream at our lunch time 
anymore. That time we had an only TV channel, now we have four.


 >If the observation of a 6 hour difference between McMurdo and Vostok 
was in the southern hemisphere summer while

 >New Zealand was on summer time, that observation could be consistent 
with Vostok observing UTC+7 at the time.

I told I change Vostok timezone for comfortable communications with 
Progress base that is the center of Russian Antarctic logistics.
Years ago the center of our logistics was Mirny base — sledge convoys 
and aviation started from there. Have a look at Mirny's timezone: 
https://www.aari.ru/ekspeditsii/rossiyskaya-antarkticheskaya-ekspeditsiya-(rae)/mirnyy
It is UTC+7.


20.12.2023 08:34, L. David Baron пишет:
> On Tuesday 2023-12-19 11:04 -0800, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
>> -# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08):
>> -# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is
>> -# what they had to say about time there:
>> -# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo)
>> -# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was
>> -# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead
>> -# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The
>> -# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT."
> One observation about this 22-year-old quote:  New Zealand (then and
> now) observed summer time for roughly half of the year, so "which is
> 12 hours ahead of GMT" was only correct for the southern hemisphere
> winter; in the summer New Zealand was 13 hours ahead.
>
> If the observation of a 6 hour difference between McMurdo and Vostok
> was in the southern hemisphere summer while New Zealand was on
> summer time, that observation could be consistent with Vostok
> observing UTC+7 at the time.
>
> -David
>
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