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Clocks in Crimea and Moscow struck midnight at the
same time after the Russian-speaking peninsula jumped Saturday into the
timezone of its new masters. Symbolically sealing Russia's takeover of the formerly Ukrainian
peninsula, a ceremony was held to move the clocks two hours forward at the
railway station in the main city of Simferopol. The Black Sea
peninsula's prime minister Sergei Aksyonov oversaw the switch at 10:00 pm
(midnight Moscow, 2000 GMT) to applause from hundreds of supporters who waved
Russian flags and shouted "Russia".
Ordinary Crimeans were
expected to make the switch at 2:00 am on Sunday. Moscow opted in 2011
to stay on permanent Summer Time, which is four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean
Time (GMT). The rest of Europe prepared to set their clocks one hour
forward for summer also on Sunday. "Getting ready for time
travel," said local newspaper Krymskaya Gazeta (Crimean Newspaper),
warning locals that the time switch could trigger health problems such as sleep
disorder, apathy, depression and possible changes to the endocrine system.
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