Daylight Saving Time?

quinterbourne · Post by **quinterbourne** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:48 am

Should the "clock" on Tubenet be pushed ahead an hour?

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 6:55 am

push it off the dresser.

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:28 am

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.

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:38 am

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.

quinterbourne · Post by **quinterbourne** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:51 pm

Thanks!

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 9:32 am

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.

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:21 am

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.

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:35 pm

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.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:17 pm

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.