Six Russian regions was transferred back to the clock forward one hour – 66.ru

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A new procedure for calculating the time entered in the Trans-Baikal Territory, Astrakhan, Ulyanovsk and Sakhalin regions, the Altai Krai and Altai Republic.

From today, 27 March, Russia has changed the boundaries of time zones, and the procedure for calculating time on the territory of the six regions, the press service of the Federal agency for technical regulation and metrology (Rosstandart .)

a new procedure for calculating the time entered in the Trans-Baikal Territory: Now is the time difference with Moscow will be six hours; an hour longer in the Astrakhan and Ulyanovsk regions, four hours more – in Altai Krai and Altai Republic; eight hours -. in Sakhalin region

In this regard, today at 2:00 local time on the territories of these regions clocks moved forward one hour. This did not change the time in Severo-Kurilsk district of Sakhalin region.

Let’s remind, in 2014 a law on the return of the winter time, Russia adopted a year on a regular basis instead of a permanent summer, as well as on the return of 11 time zones . The law, which repealed the seasonal transition to winter / summer time, introduced in 2011 at the initiative of then-President Dmitry Medvedev. After that, the country lived on summer time, and it was established nine time zones.

Europe while continuing to twice a year to translate the clock. Today, European countries have switched to summer time.