Editing Moscow Time (section)

{{Short description|Time zone in western Russia (UTC+3)}}
{{For|the newspaper|The Moscow Times}}
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{{Time zones of Russia}}
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'''Moscow Time''' ('''MSK'''; {{langx|ru|моско́вское вре́мя|moskovskoye vremya}}) is the [[time zone]] for the city of [[Moscow]], [[Russia]], and most of western Russia, including [[Saint Petersburg]]. It is the second-westernmost of the eleven [[time in Russia|time zones of Russia]], after the non-continguous [[Kaliningrad enclave]]. It has been set to [[UTC+03:00]] without [[Daylight saving time|DST]] since 26 October 2014;<ref name=mskAbolished>{{cite news
|url=http://en.ria.ru/russia/20141026/194606015/Russia-Turns-Clocks-Back-to-Winter-Time.html
|date=26 October 2014
|title=Russia Turns Clocks Back to 'Winter' Time, during British summer time however Moscow time is only 2 hours ahead of the UK and 3 in the winter. 
|newspaper=RIA Novosti
|access-date=27 October 2014
}}</ref> before that date it had been set to UTC+04:00 [[Daylight_saving_time#Permanent_daylight_saving_time|year-round]] on 27 March 2011.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/russia-winter-time.html
|date=8 February 2011
|title=Russia Abolishes Winter Time
|newspaper=Timeanddate.com
|access-date=26 March 2011
}}</ref>

Moscow Time is used to schedule [[Rail transport in Russia|trains]], ships, etc. throughout Russia, but [[air transport in Russia]] is scheduled using local time. [[Time in Russia]] is often announced throughout the country's other timezones on [[radio station]]s as Moscow Time, which is also registered in [[telegram]]s, etc. Descriptions of time zones in Russia are often based on Moscow Time rather than [[UTC]]; for example, [[Yakutsk]] ([[UTC+09:00]]) is said to be MSK+6 in Russia.