Decree time explained
Decree time (Russian: декретное время) refers to the changes introduced to the Soviet Union time system by a Sovnarkom decree of 16 June 1930. By this decree, all clocks in the Soviet Union were permanently shifted one hour ahead at 00:00 on 21 June 1930 everywhere in the Soviet Union.[1] Applicability of this decree was further extended by two other decrees in 1930[2] and 1931.[3] [4] The practice was further extended, and its legal basis was amended, in 1980.[5]
It is independent from daylight saving time, which was introduced in the USSR much later, in 1981.[5] In fact, with both time shifts in effect, summer time was two hours ahead of standard time in the USSR.
From 1982 to 1986, decree time was gradually abolished by the Soviet government in 30 oblasts and autonomous republics of the Russian SFSR. In 1989, it was further abolished in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Moldavia, followed by the entire territory of the Soviet Union in March 1991 (nine months before its dissolution).
On 23 October 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR ruled to restore decree time in Russia. It was restored on 19 January 1992 at 02:00, with the following exemptions:
- the Kaliningrad Oblast was permitted to use Eastern European Time instead of Moscow Time;
- all federal subjects that would have to use Samara Time in absence of this exemption (Adygea, most part of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Astrakhan Oblast, Chechnya, Chuvashia, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Ivanovo Oblast, Kabardino-Balkaria, Kalmykia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Kostroma Oblast, Kirov Oblast, Krasnodar Krai, Lipetsk Oblast, Mari El, Mordovia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, North Ossetia-Alania, Penza Oblast, Rostov Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Stavropol Krai, Tambov Oblast, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Vladimir Oblast, Volgograd Oblast, Vologda Oblast, Voronezh Oblast, Yaroslavl Oblast) were permitted to use Moscow Time instead;
- the whole Arkhangelsk Oblast and Komi Republic were permitted to use Moscow Time;
- the Tyumen Oblast was permitted to use Yekaterinburg Time instead of Omsk Time; and
- the whole Krasnoyarsk Krai was permitted to use Krasnoyarsk Time (its easternmost parts would have to use Irkutsk Time otherwise).[6] [7]
Most of these exemptions are equivalent to abolition of decree time in corresponding territories. At present, all these federal subjects use the exemptions.
In 1992 decree time was only restored in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan, with further changes after 1992 (see the corresponding page in the Russian Wikipedia).
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Постановление СНК СССР от 16 июня 1930 года № 60 «О переводе часовой стрелки вперёд на один час» . ru . istmat.info . 2018-02-05 . 11 August 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160811194928/http://istmat.info/node/49861 . dead .
- Web site: Постановление СНК СССР от 30 сентября 1930 года «О продлении действия постановления Совета народных комиссаров Союза ССР от 16 июня 1930 г. о переводе часовой стрелки вперед на один час» . ru . istmat.info . 2018-02-05 . 24 June 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210624121759/https://istmat.info/node/50462 . dead .
- Web site: Постановление СНК СССР от 9 февраля 1931 года № 107 «О счёте времени по международной системе часовых поясов» . ru . istmat.info . 2018-02-05 . 6 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180206073548/http://istmat.info/node/54565 . dead .
- Web site: Постановление СНК СССР от 9 февраля 1931 года № 107 «О счёте времени по международной системе часовых поясов» . ru . consultant.ru . 2018-02-05.
- Web site: Постановление Совета Министров СССР от 24 октября 1980 г. № 925 «О порядке исчисления времени на территории СССР» . ru . consultant.ru . 2018-02-05.
- Web site: Act of the Soviet of the Republic of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR no.1790-1 of 1991 . ru . 2009-08-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716070235/http://infopravo.by.ru/fed1991/ch01/akt10797.shtm . 16 July 2011.
- Web site: Act of the Government of the Russian Federation no. 23 of 1992 . https://archive.today/20120708185031/http://gov.consultant.ru/doc.asp?ID=90979 . dead . 2012-07-08 . ru .
