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Moscow Time (MSK, Russian: моско́вское вре́мя, romanized: moskovskoye vremya) is the time zone for the city of Moscow, Russia, and most of western Russia, including Saint Petersburg. It is the second-westernmost of the eleven time zones of Russia .
The main purpose of this page is to list the current standard time offsets of different countries, territories and regions. Information on daylight saving time or historical changes in offsets can be found in the individual offset articles (e.g. UTC+01:00) or the country-specific time articles (e.g. Time in Russia).
After the Soviet Union was created, Moscow Time became UTC+02:00 and the various other time zones (up to UTC+12:00) were introduced throughout Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union, for example Irkutsk Time UTC+07:00 (Irkutsk has since this always been MSK+5). [7]
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+08:00), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−05:00), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−06:00), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in ...
During the late 19th century, Moscow Mean Time was introduced in Russia, originally at UTC+02:30. [1] [2] After the October Revolution, the time zone was changed to UTC+03:00. The British company rule in Rhodesia also briefly observed this offset, adopting it on 1 August 1899 [3] before switching to UTC+02:00 in 1903.
From the 1990s to the 2010s, Russia experienced a countrywide wave of clock shifts towards Moscow. By 2010, all Western Siberia 's Moscow+4 regions moved to Moscow+3, merging into Omsk Time. In 2011, Russia moved to year-round daylight saving time.
Kaliningrad Time is the time zone two hours ahead of UTC and one hour behind Moscow Time (MSK−1). It is used in Kaliningrad Oblast . Until 2011, Kaliningrad Time was identical to Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00; UTC+03:00 with daylight saving time ).
In Russia, dates are usually written in "day month year" (DMY) order.This order is used in both the all-numeric date (for example "28.08.17") and the expanded form (for example "28 августа 2017 г.