DST ends in Europe tonight at 01:00 UTC
by Volker Weber
Just as a reminder, because the US has a different cross-over date. Starting today London is only 4 and Frankfurt 5 hours ahead of New York:
Since 1996 European Summer Time has been observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union.[76] Starting in 2007, most of the United States and Canada observe DST from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, almost two-thirds of the year.[86]
An interesting week for webinars and telephone conferences.
Comments
my claim to the regulating bodies (who are they?) would be:
get rid of that frustrating winter-jet lag!!
don't touch the time. leave it on summer mode. for ever. please?
...or try to spend a winter in berlin, at the top north-eastern end of that huge time zone - in december it starts getting dark at 4PM. (and quite naturally night life has been blossoming up here...)
I really do not care about early sunsets and I tend to believe higher life quality would be achieved if we'd have another hour of brightness at the end of the day.
I firmly believe the creation of Summer Time is in the top 10 of the biggest WTFs in history.
It creates a lot more problems as it solves - if you ever did more with time just looking at your watch and read it, you know what I mean.
To bad the economic damage of juggling people around twice a year can hardly be calculated, but I'm sure it outweighs any economic benefit there is.
If you know a really good reason for summer time that I may have missed throughout the years, please enlighten me! I really want to know.
I agree with Michel on this one. DST causes nothing but problems. We should get rid of changing the time twice a year and instead completely move the whole time zone by one hour.
I'd rather have DST then no DST at all. Could it be running throughout the year? Probably not, because people would have an even harder time to get going in the morning during winter.
And Michel, I'd rather not move eastwards. :-)
I am happy with the DST ends - one hour longer to sleep :-)
And, you can seriously only complain about DST if you live in the south, in the north it make more than perfect sense. and if you look at the map of countries with DST, no country on equator ever have had DST.
In germany, the DST ended in the night from the 25th to the 26th. Strangely enough my watch changed the time only from the 26th to the 27th.
Saved me a couple appointments - thank you vowe!
Sync between Sony Ericsson (K800i) and iCal don't work that well - iCal mentioned a date at 17p.m., K800i told 18p.m. - and I couldn't remember where I created the entry.
Time to say goodbye to DST at all.
Did anyone else notice that Domino 8.0.2 did not handle the DST change automatically. IBM support told us that a server restart was required to get the correct time. This worked fine in Domino 7.0.2
that's when I recommend timeanddate.com meeting planner
simple design and works brilliantly.
... just make sure you select the right date ;-)
Does not Russia have the all-year DST-equivalent (sowjet-time) plus another hour DST? That's really the only thing I'd like to import from Russia. Here in Arizona where I am at the moment it is even more complicated - Arizone itself does not use DST while Navajo Nation does. We first were kind of confused when we got in our Motel Room and the time was an hour off today.
