Question

Russia extends over _____ time zones.

Answer 1

Hint: A time zone is a region that has a common uniform time for social, legal, and commercial convenience. The average solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, has become the globally adopted time standard, it is referred to as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Complete Answer: The world is divided into 24 time zones and Russia is composed of 11 time zones with Russia and the United States ranked second with 11 time zones each. The country with the most time zones is France with 12 time zones, mainly due to different colonies. In 2009, Russia decided to decrease the number of time zones from 11 to 9 but then in 2014 that decision was reversed. In 1917, Russia switched to summer time for the first time, one hour before local solar time, but four years later, the idea of switching between summer and winter was abandoned. In 1930, the clock again moved forward one hour to call the specified time. For 50 years, the Soviet Union lived up to that time until 1981, many Russians said they found it difficult to adapt to changing clocks twice a year, and this practice was abandoned again. Finally, in 2014, the government ruled that the clock would go back one hour and remain there. And since then, Russia has been permanently following the winter.

Note: The world is divided longitudinally into time zones, with an hour’s difference roughly 15 degrees apart. There are 24 time zones in the world, and some countries have more than 2 time zones. There are 23 countries with at least 2 time zones.