Thread: Damn Daylight Savings Time Anyway!!
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Old 10-30-2010, 03:30 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by twobits View Post
Same way it saves daylight I guess? Reminds me of that I had heard the USSR had decided that if daylight savings time was good , they would outdo the West and do double daylight savings time. Can't seem to find anything to confirm that though, so it is probably an urban legend like the pencil/pen of the space programs.
Per Wikipedia, for most of the USSR's existence as such, they didn't use DST at all.

Yeah, I'm calling UL on this one. (And yes, I know Wikipedia is not 100% reliable. They do pretty well, though.)

A few countries have tried it, but as far as I can find, the USSR was not one of them.
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