OT: Time Zones

[Fredwina]

Russia covers, I think, five time zones, but the Transiberian Railway keeps Moscow time all the way to the Pacific.

You're close .Russia has 11 time zones. I think we in the "west" forget how Immense a country Russia is.
Drifting OT (in the OT forum), I worked with a Soviet emirege. He told me one time, as a patriotic Soviet, he took a trip on the Trans-Siberain.
"The first Day out of Moscow, I see nothing but trees. Second day, same thing. Third day, I decide Soviet Union will never run out of lumber "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zones_of_Russia