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Whose clocks changed this week
#2
Posted Today, 10:12
The US (except for a couple of states) entered Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning this week. Most of Europe changes on March 29.
#3
Posted Today, 10:21
barmar, on 2026-March-11, 10:12, said:
The US (except for a couple of states) entered Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning this week. Most of Europe changes on March 29.
And you have known for two decades but never fixed the interface to handle it correctly in Europe (or perhaps even in the US outside EST?)
To be fair, Europe held a referendum and the verdict was to stop changing the clock, but most countries simply ignored that. Italy is due to hold its own referendum and I will not be at all surprised if Stop wins and is ignored yet again. Stupidity has an awesome momentum once up to speed.
#5
Posted Today, 10:37
I will admit this is one of the joys of my current travelling life:
I spent 20+ years of my life auto-translating timezones (my default statement, even today, is "unless I say otherwise, any times are *your time*." I have enough experience with doing this in my head that it's just not worth doing a negotiation). I spent more than 20 years of my life changing 3-20 clocks, twice a year, invariably taking between 2 weeks (oh, right, that has a clock on it too) to 6 months (I have no idea how to set the clock on this thing) to get all of them. This is a Win.
Yes, I frequently play in the Alberta Daily Team Game and a VABC in Texas, and so have to do the switch back and forth.
The scariest "time clock change" this year was driving to Puerto Vallarta, where I couldn't figure out why we were so early - because I forgot the highway goes into Nayarit (MST, "zona Pacifica" in México) for a couple of hours before dipping back into Jalisco at the Vallarta Airport and my phone switched.
The rest of BC joined Creston, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Arizona and other intelligent states last week - this is the final change. Alberta is talking about it again, now being surrounded by one-timers and Montana (plebiscite 4 years ago was a two-valued ask of a three-valued question, and failed when the "stay on one time, but the other one" joined the "nah, we like missing church and meetings twice a year, at least there's light for one of my commutes" group).
- When I am in Canada, I am on MDT.
- When I leave to go South, I go to CST (which for the last 4 years has been full-time, except near the border where for 800-pound-gorilla reasons, they do whatever the state north of them does, or the extremes of the country, where they have stayed on a different time zone full-time).
- By the time I come back, Alberta is on MDT again.
I spent 20+ years of my life auto-translating timezones (my default statement, even today, is "unless I say otherwise, any times are *your time*." I have enough experience with doing this in my head that it's just not worth doing a negotiation). I spent more than 20 years of my life changing 3-20 clocks, twice a year, invariably taking between 2 weeks (oh, right, that has a clock on it too) to 6 months (I have no idea how to set the clock on this thing) to get all of them. This is a Win.
Yes, I frequently play in the Alberta Daily Team Game and a VABC in Texas, and so have to do the switch back and forth.
The scariest "time clock change" this year was driving to Puerto Vallarta, where I couldn't figure out why we were so early - because I forgot the highway goes into Nayarit (MST, "zona Pacifica" in México) for a couple of hours before dipping back into Jalisco at the Vallarta Airport and my phone switched.
The rest of BC joined Creston, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Arizona and other intelligent states last week - this is the final change. Alberta is talking about it again, now being surrounded by one-timers and Montana (plebiscite 4 years ago was a two-valued ask of a three-valued question, and failed when the "stay on one time, but the other one" joined the "nah, we like missing church and meetings twice a year, at least there's light for one of my commutes" group).
Long live the Republic-k. -- Major General J. Golding Frederick (tSCoSI)
#6
Posted Today, 10:48
Here in BC we sprung forward on March 8th and ended this ancient routine of changing clocks.
PSPDT is here for good.
PSPDT is here for good.
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"100% certain that many excellent players would disagree. This is far more about style/judgment than right vs. wrong." Fred
"Hysterical Raisins again - this time on the World stage, not just the ACBL" mycroft
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