Vladivostok Time (VLAT)

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time standard time zone

Vladivostok Time (VLAT) is a time zone used in Russia’s Far East, including the city of Vladivostok, typically set nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Vladivostok Time	40
Yakutsk Time	3
Vladivostok Time (UTC+10)	2
Asia/Vladivostok	1
Vladivostok Time (VLAT) canonical	1
Владивостокское время	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T250434 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Vladivostok Time (VLAT)
Context triple: [ChST, sameUTCOffsetAs, Vladivostok Time (VLAT)]

A. Moscow Time
Moscow Time is the standard time zone used in Moscow and much of western Russia, corresponding to UTC+3 year-round.
B. Yakutsk Time (seasonally, depending on Russian DST history)
Yakutsk Time is a time zone used in eastern Russia that has seasonally aligned with Japan Standard Time at various points depending on Russia’s daylight saving time policies.
C. Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time
Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time is the time zone used by Hawaii and part of the Aleutian Islands, typically 10 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−10:00).
D. Vladivostok
Vladivostok is a major Russian port city on the Pacific Ocean, serving as the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway and a key naval and commercial hub near the borders with China and North Korea.
E. Easter Island Standard Time
Easter Island Standard Time is the time zone used on Chile’s Easter Island, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) outside of daylight saving periods.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Vladivostok Time (VLAT)
Target entity description: Vladivostok Time (VLAT) is a time zone used in Russia’s Far East, including the city of Vladivostok, typically set nine hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+9).

A. Moscow Time
Moscow Time is the standard time zone used in Moscow and much of western Russia, corresponding to UTC+3 year-round.
B. Yakutsk Time (seasonally, depending on Russian DST history)
Yakutsk Time is a time zone used in eastern Russia that has seasonally aligned with Japan Standard Time at various points depending on Russia’s daylight saving time policies.
C. Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time
Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time is the time zone used by Hawaii and part of the Aleutian Islands, typically 10 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−10:00).
D. Vladivostok
Vladivostok is a major Russian port city on the Pacific Ocean, serving as the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway and a key naval and commercial hub near the borders with China and North Korea.
E. Easter Island Standard Time
Easter Island Standard Time is the time zone used on Chile’s Easter Island, typically four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−6) outside of daylight saving periods.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	time standard ⓘ time zone ⓘ
abbreviation	VLAT ⓘ
appliesToFederalSubject	Jewish Autonomous Oblast ⓘ Khabarovsk Krai ⓘ Primorsky Krai ⓘ Sakhalin Oblast ⓘ southern part of the Sakha Republic ⓘ
appliesToIslandRegion	Kuril Islands (southern part, where aligned with Sakhalin) ⓘ linked to: Kuril Islands Sakhalin Island ⓘ
appliesToSeaArea	Sea of Japan coast of Russia ⓘ Tatar Strait coast of Russia ⓘ
cityUsedIn	Khabarovsk ⓘ Komsomolsk-on-Amur ⓘ Vladivostok ⓘ Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ⓘ
coordinatedWith	Russian national time system ⓘ
countryCode	RU ⓘ
countrySubdivisionType	federal subjects of Russia ⓘ
countryUsedIn	Russia ⓘ
DSTAbolishedInRussia	2014 ⓘ
DSTCurrentlyObserved	false ⓘ
governingAuthority	Government of the Russian Federation ⓘ
isEastOf	Yakutsk Time ⓘ linked to: Yakutsk Time (seasonally, depending on Russian DST history)
isFixedOffset	true ⓘ
isPartOf	timekeeping in Russia ⓘ
isWestOf	Magadan Time ⓘ
languageOfOfficialName	Russian ⓘ
legalStatus	official time ⓘ
observesDaylightSavingTime	no ⓘ
offsetFromJapanStandardTimeHours	0 ⓘ
offsetFromMoscowTimeHours	+6 ⓘ
previouslyObservedDST	yes ⓘ
regionUsedIn	Russian Far East ⓘ linked to: Russia Far East
RussianName	Владивостокское время ⓘ linked to: Vladivostok Time (VLAT)
sameOffsetAs	Japan Standard Time ⓘ Korea Standard Time ⓘ Yakutsk Time (summer, historically when DST applied) ⓘ linked to: Yakutsk Time (seasonally, depending on Russian DST history)
timeNotationUsed	24-hour clock ⓘ
timeZoneGroup	Russian time zones ⓘ
timeZoneNameInIANA	Asia/Vladivostok ⓘ linked to: Vladivostok Time (VLAT)
typicalUse	business hours scheduling in Vladivostok region ⓘ transport timetables in Russian Far East ⓘ
usedForCivilTimeInRegion	yes ⓘ
usedForRailwayTimeInRegion	yes ⓘ
UTCOffset	UTC+09:00 ⓘ
UTCOffsetHours	9 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited