Time settings

[xchic]

I have my time settings to GMT+1 & Detect daylight saving - so why is the forum clock showing 9.27am when it's actually 8.27 right now?

[pjt33]

It's probably assuming that summer time starts everywhere on the same day. It's just started in the US and Canada, but doesn't start in the EU for another two weeks. (Phew! Panic over! I thought I'd forgotten it and would be late to church).

[xchic]

Originally Posted by pjt33

It's probably assuming that summer time starts everywhere on the same day. It's just started in the US and Canada, but doesn't start in the EU for another two weeks. (Phew! Panic over! I thought I'd forgotten it and would be late to church).

That must be it!

So the software doesn't really 'automatically detect DST' then!

[bobjenkins]

¿Cuándo los relojes cambiarán en España? He estado esperando hasta las trece en España, pienso que estoy lento por ocho horas. Ahora es 1

Cuando me mude al otro lugar estaré confundido porque aquí nunca no se cambian los relojes

[xchic]

Originally Posted by bobjenkins

¿Cuándo los relojes cambiarán en España? He estado esperando hasta las trece en España, pienso que estoy lento por ocho horas. Ahora es 1

Cuando me mude al otro lugar estaré confundido porque aquí nunca no se cambian los relojes

Siempre cambian el último domingo de marzo y octubre, el mismo que en Inglaterra.Que es donde GMT viene. ¿Por qué es diferente en los EE.UU.?

[bobjenkins]

Originally Posted by xchic

Siempre cambian el último domingo de marzo y octubre, el mismo que en Inglaterra.Que es donde GMT viene. ¿Por qué es diferente en los EE.UU.?

No sé pero aquí en Arizona nadie nunca lo cambia

Most of Arizona does not observe daylight saving time, and during summer months is on the same time as Pacific Daylight Time, though it is still called Mountain Standard Time in Arizona.

No tengo ninguna idea por qué no se lo cambia, quizás somos especiales

[ROBINDESBOIS]

In fact I think it´s a very good idea what Arizonians do, It´s a pain in the back to change the time over and over. It´s not good for the body, and I don´t think we save all that money the Lousy talk about.

[xchic]

Originally Posted by bobjenkins

No sé pero aquí en Arizona nadie nunca lo cambia



No tengo ninguna idea por qué no se lo cambia, quizás somos especiales

Most of Arizona? Not all of it?

How strange!!

[bobjenkins]

Originally Posted by xchic

Most of Arizona? Not all of it?

How strange!!

Sí ,pensaba que todos no lo cambian , pero qué raro! ... me pregunta el por qué , ya tengo que saberlo

editar.. jajaj es porque hace sumamente calor aquí

While energy conservation was the original inspiration why the rest of the country does it, the main reason that people in Arizona opposed it at the time it was inacted (1974) was simply because it is so hot in much of Arizona during the summer that many people wait until after sunset to do outdoor activities and thus do not want to push back sunset (and the cooler temperatures it brings) any further.

Here are the details:
The main reason for daylight savings in the United States has been for energy conservation. The idea is that more sunlight in the evening means that homes and stores don't have to turn on lights as early and thus save energy and fuel. The US (including Arizona) went on day light savings during both World War 1 and World War 2 to save fuel and energy for the war effort, but then went off after the wars were over. Over the following years, some states and even individual cities enacted it on a local basis.

The current national system of day light savings was implemented by a federal law called the 'Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973' in reponse to the oil shortage at that time (it was made permanent a year later). Prior to its passing, numerous citizen groups in Arizona sent in petitions for the state to be exempted from this and Arizona Governor Jack Williams also supported exemption. Arizona farmers were especially against it because they were often up early in the mornings when temps are cooler

[Jessica]

daily savings time

[xchic]

Originally Posted by Jessica

daily savings time

Yes, Daylight Savings Time - but it doesn't start here in Spain for 2 more weeks.

It seems to have been put right now. so thank-you whoever did it.

[CrOtALiTo]

Here in Mexico exist the change setting time ( Cambio de horario ). I mean when coming the summer we tend to change the hour already you hold back the hour or the forwards the time.

[xchic]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Here in Mexico exist the change setting time ( Cambio de horario ). I mean when coming the summer we tend to change the hour already you hold back the hour or the forwards the time.

That's it exactly. When does it happen in Mexico?

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@xchic: It's from first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. (This year, at the US Border it will be from March 14th to November 7th.)

It's been applied in Mexico since 2002. Some of us have never get used to it and still hate it.

[xchic]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@xchic: It's from first Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October. (This year, at the US Border it will be from March 14th to November 7th.)

It's been applied in Mexico since 2002. Some of us have never got used to it and still hate it.

So it's quite new there & different dates again!!?

I wonder why different countries change at different times

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes the Angelica said the change settings.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by xchic

So it's quite new there & different dates again!!?

I wonder why different countries change at different times

Because it is a "standard".

(more are on the way)

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

@xchic: In Mexico dates have changed because of political/financial reasons. The government wanted to keep the changes with the USA because of Wall Street timing, but people complained a lot and they decided to apply the changes two weeks after and two weeks before the changes happened in the USA. Only US-border-states will change clocks with the USA now. But the state of Sonora, which (I think) shares a border with Arizona, doesn't make those changes.

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@xchic: In Mexico dates have changed because of political/financial reasons. The government wanted to keep the changes with the USA because of Wall Street timing, but people complained a lot and they decided to apply the changes two weeks after and two weeks before the changes happened in the USA. Only US-border-states will change clocks with the USA now. But the state of Sonora, which (I think) shares a border with Arizona, doesn't make those changes.

It happened in the border, because here in the South continue being the same.

[Jessica]

some states don't do DST, I see no point to it really...supposed to 'conserve energy'