Breaking: Putin abolishes 'daylight savings' time change so it will be even darker in Russia

[uhnope]

Okay not breaking but still funny--looks like the Onion but it's not

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28423647

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that the country will permanently switch to winter time on 26 October.

The move will reduce the time difference between Moscow and most of Europe by an hour, Itar-Tass reports, and at the same time create two new time zones. Russia already has nine time zones - but now the area around the Volga River will run one hour ahead of Moscow, and the country's remote Kamchatka and Chukotka regions in the far east will be nine hours ahead - giving Russia a total of 11 time zones. Correspondents say the aim is to make sure local time matches the rising of the sun as closely as possible.

This ends an experiment that began under former president and Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev. In 2011 he switched the clocks to year-round "summer time". The change was initially popular, but a survey last year showed less than a third of Russians wanted to keep the clocks forward all year.

MPs say permanent summer time created stress and health problems, especially for people in northern Russia where the mornings would remain darker for longer during the harsh winter months. They cited medical reports of increased morning road accidents in 2012 compared to previous years, and blamed them firmly on the 2011 time change.

[still_one]

1. Actually switching between standard and daylight savings time is outdated

[newfie11]

2. I wish it would stop where I live.nt

[LiberalEsto]

3. He really wants to set the clocks back to 1957

Specifically Oct. 4, the launch of Sputnik.

[City Lights]

4. I despise DST and wish it would end where I live. nt

[William769]

5. He must be drinking vodka with Kim Jong-un

[djean111]

6. Arizona - except for the Navajos - does not observe DST.

Not all countries observe it, either.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Not breaking, not remotely funny. Informative though, give the author that.

[uhnope]

8. There's a certain dark humor to it

Putin abolished daylight savings time and Siberians are grumbling about 'eternal winter'

Well, this year, when Vladimir Putin decided to abolish daylight savings time, winter across Russia just got a lot darker. One news report put it this way: "On Sunday, Russia switches to wintertime and stays there. Forever."

That means more sunlight in the morning, less sunlight in the afternoon. And in parts of Siberia, where the clocks were turned back two hours instead of just one — a very early start to the day.

"So the way it is now, the day starts two hours earlier," says Anya Krushelnitskaya, who grew up in the eastern Siberian city of Chita. "What it means also is that the sun goes down and it's barely after 4 o'clock in the afternoon."

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-12-19/putin-abolished-daylight-savings-time-and-siberians-are-grumbling-about-eternal

[True Blue Door]

9. He should set the clocks to Failure O'Clock.

As long as he's in power, they'll never be wrong.

[okaawhatever]

10. +100 Brilliant nt

[Ryan Fitzomething]

11. The Rising of The Sun?

In today's Russia, isn't that Putin himself, getting out of bed in the morning?