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Daylight Saving Time?
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:48 am
by quinterbourne
Should the "clock" on Tubenet be pushed ahead an hour?
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:55 am
by Brassdad
push it off the dresser.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:28 am
by Rick F
You need to adjust the time yourself.
Click on 'Profile' at the top of the page. Scroll down till you see the time zone. Click on the correct time.

Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:38 am
by finnbogi
I see all times as GMT (it says so in the bottom right corner), which should be consistent all year round. The countries that use daylight savings only change their offset from GMT. For example, the German use GMT+1 during winter and GMT+2 during summer. Besides, I think that Europeans and Americans (let alone Aussies, Africans and Asians) don't even make the switch at the same time, so this would just complicate things.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:51 pm
by quinterbourne
Thanks!
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:32 am
by finnbogi
I did a bit of online searching and found out that Iceland is the only country in Europe that does not use daylight saving time. The remainder of Europe switches to summer time on the last Sunday of March, a week ahead of America.
Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:21 am
by Rick F
finnbogi wrote:I did a bit of online searching and found out that Iceland is the only country in Europe that does not use daylight saving time.
That makes sense. Iceland doesn't need to change to DLST since it's so far north (land of the midnight sun). I spent a year in Sondestrom Greenland - which is near the same latitude as Iceland. The sun never set for a couple of months in the summer. Not a problem until you come out from the NCO club at 2 AM and noticed you forgot your sunglasses.

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:35 pm
by finnbogi
Rick F wrote:The sun never set for a couple of months in the summer.
That's the good part. The bad part is the sun not rising for a couple of months in the winter.

Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:17 pm
by LoyalTubist
When I was living in Berlin, Germany, as a tuba player with the 298th US Army Band, Western Europe decided to go to Summer Time (as they call it) for the first time since World War II. Berlin was so far north that if I had to be to work at 5:00 AM and went to bed at 9:00 PM the night before, I never saw complete darkness. There was light outside when I went to bed and when I woke up.