[LEAPSECS] GLONASS To Be Official Time Dissemination Means in Russia

[Richard Langley]

Google Translation of http://rniikp.ru/ru/news/index/201103041.htm

04.03.2011g. - Firstnews (http://www.firstnews.ru/news/lenta/22516/index.php?print=Y 
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GOVERNMENT PROPOSES TO USE FOR RELEASE GLONASS time signal
The Russian government proposes to use the Glonass satellite  
navigation system for the dissemination of precise time signals - such  
a rule is contained in the draft law "On the Calculation Time," which  
was submitted to the Duma on Thursday.

There is currently no federal laws that would regulate the time  
calculation on Russian territory, and fixed to the authority of the  
Russian government and regional authorities in terms of time. The  
bill, in particular, specifies that the Civil Service of the time,  
frequency and determination of Earth rotation parameters (GSVCh RF)  
disseminates information about the exact Moscow time and calendar  
date, as well as the reference time signal using a global navigation  
satellite system GLONASS, satellite communication systems, radio ,  
radio and television.

The bill fixes that Russia lives in the Gregorian calendar, which is  
based on a cyclic circulation of the Earth around the Sun, in which  
the duration of one revolution around the Sun is 365.2425 days.  
Indicated that the Gregorian chronology of 400 years accounted for 97  
leap years.

One of the articles of the bill describes the procedure for the  
formation of timezones. Determined that the time zones are formed  
taking into account the administrative boundaries of regions.  
Authority to determine the composition of the regions included in each  
time zone, and the procedure for calculating the time they are set by  
the Government of the Russian Federation.

In this case, as reported by RIA Novosti, if one of the region decided  
to switch to the next time zone, then the solution of such a  
transition takes the Russian government on the basis of a joint  
proposal by the regional legislative assemblies and chief executive.

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