Georgia From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process of integration into Europe. From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07): Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time.... I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month. Milne 1899 says Tbilisi (Tiflis) time was 2:59:05.7. Byalokoz 1919 says Georgia was 2:59:11. Go with Byalokoz. Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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Paul Eggert (1994-11-19):
Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27):
Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process of integration into Europe.
Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07):
Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time.... I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month. Milne 1899 says Tbilisi (Tiflis) time was 2:59:05.7. Byalokoz 1919 says Georgia was 2:59:11. Go with Byalokoz. Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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