Clocks forward now one hour tonight, ( now!!) at least in Spain. but I assume, in most of Europe

Always hate loosing an hour when I have a flight to catch!

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.

It worked in my favor this week as I only have to adjust to a five hour time difference instead of the usual six. I may start planning trips around these dates.

Lost an hour in Portugal too. And just a reminder that we're an hour later than the rest of continental Europe.

It used to change at the same time until a few years ago when the US moved it to start earlier, then Canada had to follow to keep the time consistent in North America.

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?

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.

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!

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!

StCirq: We already changed hour last night, didn't we? You may sip your wine already.

Is it also a PITA when you GAIN an hour later on?

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

We change ours this weekend - well some of Australia not Queensland , WA or NT