MOSCOW, March 27, 2004. (RIA Novosti) - The time in the Russian Mission Control, where clock is never adjusted for daylight saving changes, will be one hour "slower" than the Moscow summer time on Sunday. The Mission Control in the Moscow region is allowed to work with satellites and the space station in constant time mode all year long, which is believed to be convenient, although it has some disadvantages.
"I had to buy a clock with two faces not to mix things up," a Mission Control worker complained to RIA Novosti. "One of them shows 'normal' time, and the other, the so-called standard Moscow time, according to which our organization has been working since its foundation," she said.
The International Space Station works according to Greenwich time. "Now the time difference with Moscow is three hours, and after clock adjustment it will be four hours," said Sergei Puzanov, NASA Coordinator for public relations in Russia.
"Astronauts worked according to the Moscow standard time on board the Mir station, because the station was Russian," he recalled.
