![]() ![]() Furthermore, some regions cover different time zones. In 2009, Russia decided to reduce its number of time zones from 11 to 9, but then in 2014 that decision was reversed. Subsequently, time zone boundaries in Russia were revised on multiple occasions in attempts to bring them into line with regions' administrative borders.īut if you thought the whole time zones saga ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, think again. In 1919, the country was divided into 11 time zones with boundaries that went along railroads and rivers. Officially, Russia joined the international system of time zones only after the Bolshevik Revolution. In the Russian Empire, the railroads used St. the time in London), which in the 1970s was replaced by the more accurate Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ![]() Thus appeared Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, i.e. The advent of railroads is what created the need to accurately synchronize time with other localities, and time zones were introduced, first in the United Kingdom, the U.S. Cities established their own so-called “local solar times,” whereby midday came when the sun reached its zenith. Just imagine that a mere 150 years ago the world had no time zones at all. The closest runners up for the most time zones in one country are the United States and Canada, which both have six. When the east of Russia is in the middle of the working day, the western regions are still fast asleep. This is the most time zones in any country (not counting overseas territories). The world is divided into 24 time zones, and Russia covers 11 of them. ![]()
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