Uzbekistan Time
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Uzbekistan Time is the standard time
in Uzbekistan
it is 5 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+05:00. The standard time uses no daylight saving time
, though there has been constant debate whether to adopt it in order to increase leisure time.
Prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union
there were two time zones in Uzbekistan. In the Soviet era most time zones were daylight time in the winter and double daylight time in the summer. The western part of the country observed Samarkand Time 5 or 6 hours ahead of UTC.http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=386&syear=1990 The eastern part observed Tashkent Time 6 or 7 hours ahead of UTC.http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=244&syear=1990 In 1991 the clocks did not move forward in the spring to maintain single daylight time only in the summer. That fall a unified time zone was adopted 5 hours ahead of UTC.
Time
Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....
it is 5 hours ahead of UTC, UTC+05:00. The standard time uses no daylight saving time
Daylight saving time
Daylight saving time —also summer time in several countries including in British English and European official terminology —is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less...
, though there has been constant debate whether to adopt it in order to increase leisure time.
Prior to the breakup of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
there were two time zones in Uzbekistan. In the Soviet era most time zones were daylight time in the winter and double daylight time in the summer. The western part of the country observed Samarkand Time 5 or 6 hours ahead of UTC.http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=386&syear=1990 The eastern part observed Tashkent Time 6 or 7 hours ahead of UTC.http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=244&syear=1990 In 1991 the clocks did not move forward in the spring to maintain single daylight time only in the summer. That fall a unified time zone was adopted 5 hours ahead of UTC.