Attending any international conference calls this week?
by Volker Weber
Our American friends have created yet another daylight savings time. They advanced their clocks this weekend. If you have scheduled any international conf calls this week, you may be an hour late, if you don't take that into account. Things will be back to normal, when the rest of the world switched in three weeks.
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That might explain why a big display clock on a building opposite my flat was an hour early this weekend. Quite why it was switching for the american dst while in a London suburb remains an unanswered question.
Where "Rest of the world" is more or less Europe and some neighboring countries...
@Bernd well, there’s also most of Asia, Africa, Australasia…
FYI: Canada keeps in sync with the US with respect to daylight savings time. We switched this weekend as well.
nearly fell victim to it already...
This might help: permatime.com
Actually, the US based guys I usually talk to have been happily looking forward to "one more hour per day during which you can collaborate with Europe"... :-)
If you ask me, there are a ton of things where the world should simply standardize and get rid of a costly mess:
- consumer power levels (make it either 110V or 240V, but choose one please)
- consumer power plugs (Europe has almost synchronized on two types, now make that one and worldwide, pleeeeeease!!!)
- daylight savings time - basically just get rid of it altogeher... the energy savings are (IMHO) negligible, at least compared to coordination cost
- driving on the left vs. on the right
- chargers for portable devices (there are some indications that there actually may be some agreement on mini-USB, that would be aweseome)
And the list could go on. And I guess some people would say that diversity is a value. However, I dare to say that in these cases it's not!
