[tz] In the news: Russia wants to put illegally occupied regions to Moscow Time

[Brian Inglis]

On 2023-01-27 10:38, Aaron Brown via tz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 6:29 AM Derick Rethans wrote:
>> saw this in the news:
>> https://www.newsweek.com/russia-moscow-time-zone-ukraine-annexed-territories-1777103 

> There appears to be a mistake in this article. It says "In March 2014, the time 
> zone in Crimea was officially aligned with Moscow's, placing the peninsula two 
> or three hours ahead of Ukraine." However, I don't believe Moscow and Ukraine 
> were ever 3 hours apart.

Likely s/b MSK 02-03:00 ahead of UTC, was at most 01-02:00, now at most 01:00 
ahead of .uk, 03-04:00 ahead of UTC:

$ zdump -Vc2014,2024 Europe/Moscow
Europe/Moscow  Sat Oct 25 21:59:59 2014 UT = Sun Oct 26 01:59:59 2014 MSK 
isdst=0 gmtoff=14400
Europe/Moscow  Sat Oct 25 22:00:00 2014 UT = Sun Oct 26 01:00:00 2014 MSK 
isdst=0 gmtoff=10800
$ zdump -Vc2023,2024 Europe/Kiev
Europe/Kiev  Sun Mar 26 00:59:59 2023 UT = Sun Mar 26 02:59:59 2023 EET isdst=0 
gmtoff=7200
Europe/Kiev  Sun Mar 26 01:00:00 2023 UT = Sun Mar 26 04:00:00 2023 EEST isdst=1 
gmtoff=10800
Europe/Kiev  Sun Oct 29 00:59:59 2023 UT = Sun Oct 29 03:59:59 2023 EEST isdst=1 
gmtoff=10800
Europe/Kiev  Sun Oct 29 01:00:00 2023 UT = Sun Oct 29 03:00:00 2023 EET isdst=0 
gmtoff=7200

More significant however appears to be the setting up of 24 "penal colonies" 
expected to be more like concentration camps, in territories under its military 
occupation.

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