Poland - year-round base Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 Romania - year-bound base Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 Russia - year-round bases Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same time as Moscow, Russia. From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is what they had to say about time there: "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time it is at Vostok. From Zakhary V. Akulov (2023-12-17 22:00:48 +0700): ... from December, 18, 2023 00:00 by my decision the local time of the Antarctic research base Vostok will correspond to UTC+5. (2023-12-19): We constantly interact with Progress base, with company who builds new wintering station, with sledge convoys, with aviation - they all use UTC+5. Besides, difference between Moscow time is just 2 hours now, not 4. (2023-12-19, in response to the question "Has local time at Vostok been UTC+6 ever since 1957, or has it changed before?"): No. At least since my antarctic career start, 10 years ago, Vostok base has UTC+7. (In response to a 2023-12-18 question "from 02:00 to 00:00 today"): This. From Paul Eggert (2023-12-18): For lack of better info, guess Vostok was at +07 from founding through today, except when closed. Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Attributed Statements:
Craig Mundell (1994-12-15):
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same time as Moscow, Russia.
Lee Hotz (2001-03-08):
I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is what they had to say about time there: "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT."
Paul Eggert (2001-05-04):
This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time it is at Vostok.
Zakhary V. Akulov (2023-12-17 22:00:48 +0700):
... from December, 18, 2023 00:00 by my decision the local time of the Antarctic research base Vostok will correspond to UTC+5. (2023-12-19): We constantly interact with Progress base, with company who builds new wintering station, with sledge convoys, with aviation - they all use UTC+5. Besides, difference between Moscow time is just 2 hours now, not 4. (2023-12-19, in response to the question "Has local time at Vostok been UTC+6 ever since 1957, or has it changed before?"): No. At least since my antarctic career start, 10 years ago, Vostok base has UTC+7. (In response to a 2023-12-18 question "from 02:00 to 00:00 today"): This.
Paul Eggert (2023-12-18):
For lack of better info, guess Vostok was at +07 from founding through today, except when closed. Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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