In Ulyanovsk to “summer” time the clock went live – the Russian newspaper

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Main Ulyanovsk clock located at the Goncharov House Photo: Victoria Chernyshova / RG

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In the night Sunday in the Ulyanovsk region was transferred to the clock “summer” time area moved to the third time zone (GMT + 1). This event is the local authorities have decided to make a solemn.

 

At two o’clock in the morning under the Ulyanovsk main clock, located in the house-museum of the writer Ivan Goncharov, organized a flash mob. Citizens lined up in the form of numbers, as the shooter used a 30-meter canvas that kept volunteers. At the time, when they began to translate the arrows on Goncharovskiy hours, at a new time passed and watch live. In the flash mob was attended by about 100 people.

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The initiative to move the arrow forward one hour in the past year expressed, at the request of the residents, regional MPs. In Soviet times, the Ulyanovsk region was already living in the so-called “Samara” time, but then the region was transferred to the Moscow time zone. After the transition to a permanent “winter” time Ulyanovsk began to complain too early sunrises and sunsets.

 

In the explanatory memorandum of the Regional Legislative Assembly, which was sent to the State Duma, said that the residents have lost nearly 170 hours of daylight a year attributable to active life. A light day reduced, which is why disrupted daily routine, no longer enough time to do the usual chores. Summer in the Ulyanovsk region was beginning to get light in the third hour of the night.

 

The State Duma supported the initiative of the Party of Regions.

 

The Governor Sergey Morozov addressed to employers asking for Ulyanovsk time to adapt to the new time: “At first, can happen pad, errors I ask the leaders of enterprises and organizations, directors of educational institutions and teachers not to take disciplinary measures for employees and to. students of schools and universities for the possible delay. It should be a qualitative explanatory work with adults and children. All eventually come back to normal “.

 

In addition to the Ulyanovsk region on March 27 “summer” time passed Astrakhan region, the Altai Republic, the Trans-Baikal and the Altai Territory and the Sakhalin region.

 

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