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Moscow Time
is
UTC+03:00
, the same time as
Eastern European Summer Time
,
East Africa Time
, and
Arabia Standard Time
.
On 28 March 2010, Moscow Time became the
time zone
for the
Samara Oblast
in Russia, leaving
Samara Time
(
UTC+04:00
) unused.
On 8 February 2011, the Russian government announced the abandonment of
daylight saving time
(DST) in all time zones across Russia. Moscovians set their clocks forward on 27 March 2011, and then UTC+04:00 became its
standard time
permanently.
In July 2014, the
law
to observe summer time year round was abandoned, and the clock has been set to UTC+3 starting from 26 October 2014.
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The time zone database is
Europe/Moscow
.