Parliament has registered a draft bill on a decision to cancel daylight saving time in Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn has said.
"There is a draft bill on a decision not to change [summer time to winter time], and I think that we’ll approve it," he said during a press conference on Monday.
"To tell the truth, there will be losses of electricity worth about Hr 300 million," he said.
Traditionally the switch to summer time occurs on the last Sunday of March and the change to winter time occurs on the last Sunday of October.
Earlier, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that he had decided to abolish daylight saving time from the autumn of 2011.
In 2011, 82 countries are using summer time (nine countries from this list don’t use this time in all of their regions) and 159 countries don’t use it. In particular, all of the European countries change to summer time (except Iceland and Russia), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Israel, the United States (apart from one state), Canada (apart from one province) and a number of other countries.
Seven former Soviet republics, Japan, China, India, Iraq, the majority of the countries in North Africa and another countries have stopped putting changing the clock.
The majority of countries of Africa, the Arabian peninsula, southeast Asia and Venezuela have never adopted daylight saving time.
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