Daylight savings time issue can be revisited - Putin
MOSCOW. Feb 7 (Interfax) - The question of daylight savings time can be revisited, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with his campaign representatives.
The matter should be discussed with experts and the broad public, he said.
I have already discussed the matter with President Dmitry Medvedev, who said he "will not hold on" to his earlier decision, Putin said.
"This is not a fetish, one can go back to it, only let us do it without haste. Let us discuss it with specialists, experts and the public in a broad sense of this word," Putin said.
In particular, it could be discussed on the Internet, he said. "I spoke to Dmitry Anatolyevich on the subject. I told him straight out what the situation is like. He said he is not going to cling to it," Putin said.
"If the majority believes that it was better before, we can return to it," he said.
"When he was making this decision to change [the time], the incumbent president was guided not by a desire to harm someone but listened to those who said it had to be done not to disturb the biological hours of humans," he said. "And cows. Their argument was that people could wake up an hour earlier and the cows would not give milk an hour earlier," the prime minister said.