Belarus goes back to EET?
Belarus stuck with the daylight saving time together with Russia in 2011. Now, the Russian Duma is going to revert the change.
Vladimir Putin himself promised to return the daylight saving time to Russians during his presidential campaign in February 2012.
Belarus decided to stick with the DST together with Russia last year. Our country's time was diffrent from all (!) our neighbours' time for six months and the time difference between Hrodna and Białystok reached two hours!
Belarus shares its time zone with Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Eastern African states and Madagascar now.
The Belarusian State Institute for Metrology has not considered reverting this change yet:
“We are not getting ready for any changes. No other decisions have been made yet," Alyaksandr Halyha, head of the Time and Frequency Department of the Institute for Metrology, told Euroradio.
Alyalksandr Halyha says that Belarus will need at least 30 days to prepare for the re-introduction of EET. Normally, it takes up to six months to consider such issues... That is why the Council of Ministers should make the corresponding decision as soon as possible.
