Can we all just have a 24 hour clock based on GMT, no other timezones, and no daylight savings time?<p>It seems a whole lot easier to change our time format just once and get used to it... instead of half of us changing the clocks twice a year, the other not, drawing all these weird lines all over (grumble India grumble), and keeping track of it all.
Good for them. It makes much more sense to shift government/business hours if needed than constantly mucking with the time and screwing up millions of software installations.
Indiana just <i>went</i> to daylight savings a couple of years back. Pissed me off - the new Republican governor said it would attract jobs (which is the reason anybody ever does anything in Indianapolis), and the success of that was predictable.
Move to Arizona. We don't have DST here. It's awesome... until you get a machine shipped to you from somewhere misconfigured with DST turned on running a time-criticial task...<p>Seriously, I wish we all went to GMT, everywhere, and just were done with it.
Isn't winter time the standard clock and it's summer time that is the deviation from that? So Russia would be abolishing summer time that is also known as daylight savings time?
Ho-hum. Want to be really forward-thinking? Follow the example of China, which discarded 5 time zones for a single national time in 1949. (We'd then adjust the office/retail hours to mimic local daylight, rather adjusting the numbers on the clock.)
You can generate a table of sunrises and sunsets from the US Naval Observatory, <a href="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php" rel="nofollow">http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php</a> . Unfortunately I don't see a way to link directly to the table; Moscow is 55 45 N, 37 36 E, and now four hours east of Greenwich. From their location, they're "naturally" around UTC+2:30 (37.6 degrees, divided by 15 degrees per hour).<p>The table says that in late December the sun will rise at around 10 AM and set at around 5 PM. This doesn't seem preferable to the 9-4 they'd have under standard time. I'm not sure about Russian time zone boundaries, though; is Moscow time used in areas to the east of Moscow?
Hope that Berlusconi in one of his delirious of madness will do the same for Italy. But I want to stay always in DST, that in Italy means more daylight.