The Supreme Council of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic was adopted on the last working day of the week the decision About moving to Donetsk time ", now in Donetsk will be the same time as the Moscow and hour difference from Kiev, said Last news in the press service of DND.
" The Council of Ministers of the Donetsk national Republic to provide an introduction Donetsk, regional and city state administrations to downstream areas of local charts the beginning of the working day, " said the Parliament's decision DND.
At this point in time, the Republic still lives on Kiev time, which is an hour behind Moscow. Next Sunday, when Kiev and Moscow will switch to winter time, Donetsk won't set the hands back an hour, explained in the press-service, and so will be in the same time zone as Moscow.
Interestingly, formally Moscow and Kiev are in the same time zone. In most regions of the USSR in 1930 was so-called daylight savings time (lap + 1 hour). When daylight saving time was added for another hour.
in 1990, the Ukrainian, Moldovan and Belarusian Soviet socialist Republic was abolished at home maternity time and " back " in your own time zone. Then the first time there was the time difference between Moscow and these republics.
With 95% of the territory of Ukraine is in the 2nd (East) zone, while Lugansk and part of the territory of Donetsk and Kharkiv oblasts in the 3rd zone. That is, formally between Donetsk and Kiev, and in truth has to be an hour difference.
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