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- <text id=92TT0226>
- <title>
- Feb. 03, 1992: World Notes:Former Soviet Union
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 03, 1992 The Fraying Of America
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 37
- World Notes
- FORMER SOVIET UNION
- Russian Time Warp
- </hdr><body>
- <p> For decades the Kremlin kept all air and rail transport in
- the U.S.S.R. on "Moscow time." Trains and planes arrived in and
- departed from the farthest reaches of an empire that sprawled
- over 11 time zones as if everything took place in the capital.
- Last week decommunized Moscow moved its clocks ahead one hour
- in a bid to save energy, but the other republics refused to
- follow. Result: mass confusion.
- </p>
- <p> Trains leaving Moscow now reach neighboring republics one
- hour early, and then must wait until local time catches up.
- Trains headed for Russia depart one hour behind Moscow's clock
- and are expected to make up the difference upon crossing the
- border--presumably by burning up the rails. Airliners
- traveling to Ukraine are reported to be arriving an hour before
- air-traffic controllers in Kiev expect them. There is little
- hope for relief until all the republics switch to daylight
- saving time next March.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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