Bit of a pain in the hole for planning, flight changes etc etc
Russia has opted out this year.....so in future they have no daylight saving. So half the year its 2 hours time difference to Moscow, the other half its 3 hours.
No, I don't think so...especially after the numerous studies that not only do farmers hate it but it doesn't actually save any energy. I really don't understand why so many countries still buy into it other than that everyone else does it and they don't want to rock the boat....I mean, think of a country like Finland where 'daylight savings' above the 60th parallel in Winter means dick. Daylight what? Yeah. It's a load of crock, that's what.
Studies after the change imply that when US extended DST by a month, there was a whopping 0.03% nationwide saving in electricity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayligh...to_the_present
(Though the same article points out that after Indiana implemented DST in 2006, their energy useage went up by 1%, so...)
Wow... seriously so much hate for DST?
Haters guna hate...
And for our members and visitors from across the Atlantic, the change takes a place a week later on Nov. 6th:
http://www.collegenews.com/article/t...nds_november_6
Read NG ́s take on the time change here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...orward-nation/
Reminder for us all in CH: Ttime change takes place on Sun 30.10.2011 at 03:00 , less than 24hrs from now ( roll back an hour then ).
I do have to admit that it is nice not to have to worry about the time change since we don't do that here in Arizona.
It made sense for those back in the past when daylight hours were their working hours and they lived by kerosene lamps instead of electric lights. I don't know why people still do it today with 24hr jobs and no longer needing to work by daylight.
In Switzerland, by far the strongest opposition to DST came from the farmers, exactly for the reasons Mud mentioned. The second strongest came from me. I don't mind 6-hour shifts when crossing the Atlantic, but that loss of one hour in spring always does me in for several weeks.
As far as I know, there's no legal requirement to change your clocks. Be a real devil and leave them at whatever time you want, it's all relative anyway.
Women will still take at least an hour between entering the bathroom and leaving it made up, we guys still need an hour to read Rolling Stone on the john and if I drive real fast I'll only be 30 minutes away from Stuttgart after an hour on ze Autobahn.
yeah. would be best if everybody just used British time and then there would be no faffing around with converting between timezones.
A little less than 9 hours to go ( to 03:00 Sunday early morning ).
Interesting write up by Swissinfo DE :
On the train operation, the 25th Hours of Sunday implications.
International trains have to wait at a station until the excess hours has passed, as an SBB spokesman said on request of the news agency sda. In the Zurich region, the S-Bahn trains night and night buses run twice during the time change. Additional staff will not need it, said a spokeswoman ZVV.
But the shift times should be adapted labeling with A and B.
Concrete traces left by the transition moment in the birth registers: If a child on Sunday (30 October) at 02.25 clock Central European Summer Time (BST) to the world, the birth time is noted with 02.25A. A one hour later - after the switch to winter time (Central European Time, CET) - born child is registered with the birth time 02.25B.
Just 2 hours to go before you roll back the time piece by an hour.
And if you don't do promptly you will be in violation of said ordinance.
Neighbors will leave nasty notes and the authorities will issue summonses, etc., etc.
Sorry, couldn't help it.
Yep. Grew up there. Half the year we were in sync with the East coast and the other half we were in sync with Chicago.
BTW, DST was originally and still is implemented for the benefit of factory owners who save(d) money by not having to waste as much energy on lighting on the shop floors. Look at old factory buildings with their transparent roofs. It was their daylight that we were saving not the animals or our own.
Big surprise, you go where the money is and "voila" there you are.
Possible if one is an hour late!
none of my clocks that should have automatically reset have done so... so it appears.
Either that or every clock in the house was automatically reset by DST night elves that came whilst I was asleep and did it all for me. Based on the position of the sun this morning I'm guessing this might be the case.
I've just turned back five clocks. And you?
Thank God for computers... Only a wristwatch. But I'm up an hour sooner than I wanted to be...
I thought my phone clock automatically reset itself... wrong! So I was up and dressed earlier than I ever have been before on a Sunday morning. I feel I've been cheated!
Yeah, the way time zones and DST were handled in Indiana was and, even after dozens of modifications, still is a nightmare. I don't know the current situation, but I remember the 'nineties and the first half of the 'naughties when Indiana had about six different time zones, some in sync with Eastern time, but not necessarily observing DST, some in sync with Central time, again with some among them that observed DST while others didn't etc. etc. ad nauseam.
What a morning. Instead to see 6h30 on the clock thi morning when the kids woke up, I saw 5h30.
Not cool.