The Russian government may in 2012 put an end to the practice of putting the clocks back an hour at the end of October, the Rossiiskaya Gazeta paper said on Thursday.
The move was proposed by the Trade Ministry, which cited a recent research showing that time changes negatively affect human health.
Russia, in line with mainstream European practice, currently puts the clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday of March and back one hour on the last Sunday of October.
Experts have already calculated that if the Trade Ministry's proposal is adopted, Russians will receive from 7 to 17 percent of "additional" daylight time.
MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti)
