guest wrote:

> Minsk is UTC+2 timezone. UTC+3 is Moscow.

timeanddate.com : says:

> Current time Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 8:41:40 PM EEST

> UTC/GMT Offset

> Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +2 hours

> Daylight saving time: +1 hour

> Current time zone offset: UTC/GMT +3 hours

> Time zone abbreviation: EEST – Eastern European Summer Time

> Daylight Saving Time DST started on Sunday, March 26, 2006 at 2:00 AM local standard time

> DST ends on Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 3:00 AM local daylight time

Now in Poland (UTC+2 = summer daylight savings time) it is 19:40. timeanddate says that Minsk is

20:40.

EEST – Eastern European Summer Time

> Time zone offset: UTC + 3 hours

> EEST is 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

>

> Note that EEST is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter EET is used instead

> EEST is used during summer only in these European countries (EET during winter) * Belarus, …

twiki point of view

> Timezone: Europe/Minsk

> Date&time: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:40:50 +0300 (EEST)

Moscow

> Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +3 hours

> Daylight saving time: +1 hour

> Current time zone offset: UTC/GMT +4 hours

So Moscow is UTC+3 (normal = winter), or UTC+4 (daylight savings = summer).

Maybe Mr Ł. cancelled daylight savings time in Belarus and he forgot to tell international time authorities? ;)

Anyway, hope to chat with you tomorrow if we can sort out the time :). i can’t see an English article from the Hungary people about yesterday’s happenings on their website – maybe tomorrow we could ask them about this…