Clocks forward one hour tonight
Mar 25th, 2017, 10:04 PM
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I must be naive, but I never realized until I read this that daylight savings time starts later in Europe than in the States. Here it begins, this year, in the Spring on March 12th, and in the Fall on November 5th.
I think that Daylight Savings Time is a PITA and should be abolished, but changing the time on different days on either sides of the Atlantic, really makes it insane.
I think that Daylight Savings Time is a PITA and should be abolished, but changing the time on different days on either sides of the Atlantic, really makes it insane.
Mar 26th, 2017, 01:16 AM
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Well I am happy. Lovely long light evenings.
I'd be happy with it all year round, even though it is way out with the time it should be if we used the sun.
I read that Spain are considering going to the same time zone as Portugal and the UK again. It only joined CET because of Franco. Any news on that?
I'd be happy with it all year round, even though it is way out with the time it should be if we used the sun.
I read that Spain are considering going to the same time zone as Portugal and the UK again. It only joined CET because of Franco. Any news on that?
Mar 26th, 2017, 03:09 AM
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Interesting about Spain. I have always wondered about France, which seems to me to be in the wrong time zone and the sun always seems to rise an hour too late. I assumed they chose their time zone to be more in tune with the rest of the continent; I wonder whether they would think about changing if Spain did.
Mar 26th, 2017, 03:18 AM
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Like. Nikki, the time change worked in my favor this year, having travelled to Rome on March 11 (dsy before the change) and then returned just over a week later. A 5-hour readjustment instead of 6 hours.
Interesting to realize that the time changes were once all the same until the US changed the dates. It's certainly nicer to have the light in the evening last for a longer period of time, though as an early riser, I'm now up in the dark for nearly 2 hours!
Interesting to realize that the time changes were once all the same until the US changed the dates. It's certainly nicer to have the light in the evening last for a longer period of time, though as an early riser, I'm now up in the dark for nearly 2 hours!
Mar 26th, 2017, 06:09 AM
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We change tonight here in France. I'm looking forward to it. I get to sit out side with my feet on the stone wall sipping wine with light until about 9 pm, and soon it will be past 10 pm. Love it!
Mar 26th, 2017, 07:27 AM
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If I plan to stay home that night, I start changing my clocks on Saturday afternoon, and get an (imaginary) extra day of summer time. ;-)
Until 2007 the US changed its clocks on the last Sunday in March, but before 1966 there was no uniformity from state to state. Time uniformity was established when it was discovered that <i>"...on the 35-mile stretch of highway (Route 2) between Moundsville, W.V., and Steubenville, Ohio, every bus driver and his passengers had to endure seven time changes!"</i>
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html
Until 2007 the US changed its clocks on the last Sunday in March, but before 1966 there was no uniformity from state to state. Time uniformity was established when it was discovered that <i>"...on the 35-mile stretch of highway (Route 2) between Moundsville, W.V., and Steubenville, Ohio, every bus driver and his passengers had to endure seven time changes!"</i>
http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html
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