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28 Mar 2009, 4:42 pm

(Does not apply to America)

Reminder

UK and France change tonight. Does the rest of Europe change too? What other countries change tonight?

If you changed your WP time zone to the wrong time zone a month ago to work around the WP time zone bug, then you will need to change it back to the correct time zone again tonight/tomorrow morning.


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28 Mar 2009, 5:08 pm

Thanks for posting.

I wonder when the clocks change in America.



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28 Mar 2009, 5:17 pm

Perambulator wrote:
Thanks for posting.

I wonder when the clocks change in America.


They changed a month ago which mangles the time shown against posts for everyone else on the planet because WP can't handle time zones correctly. WP will work correctly again tomorrow as the rest of the world nudges on their clocks too.


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28 Mar 2009, 5:17 pm

Perambulator wrote:
Thanks for posting.

I wonder when the clocks change in America.


For the U.S.A Daylight Savings began 3.18 (Sunday @ 2 am). Since I'm Alaskan this is contrived since our daylight is at extremes!

But I did set my clock on 3.18......don't forget or you'll be late.


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28 Mar 2009, 5:27 pm

3.18? Is that a date? I'm used to Americans putting the day and month in the opposite order to everyone else on the planet but 18th day of 3rd month would be a Wednesday not a Sunday. :?


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28 Mar 2009, 5:50 pm

TallyMan wrote:
3.18? Is that a date? I'm used to Americans putting the day and month in the opposite order to everyone else on the planet but 18th day of 3rd month would be a Wednesday not a Sunday. :?


Oh, first apology: I meant the 8th (Sunday) not the 18th (Wednesday) of March for Dayligh Savings.

Most Amercans write dates as (for today, as an example - March 28, 2009, Saturday) as 3/28/09. Unsure, I'm an Alaskan (bit different than the continent in some ways) as 3.28.09, usually just dropping the '09' since we know 2009. So we write month, day, year.


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28 Mar 2009, 5:57 pm

LabPet wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
3.18? Is that a date? I'm used to Americans putting the day and month in the opposite order to everyone else on the planet but 18th day of 3rd month would be a Wednesday not a Sunday. :?


Oh, first apology: I meant the 8th (Sunday) not the 18th (Wednesday) of March for Dayligh Savings.

Most Amercans write dates as (for today, as an example - March 28, 2009, Saturday) as 3/28/09. Unsure, I'm an Alaskan (bit different than the continent in some ways) as 3.28.09, usually just dropping the '09' since we know 2009. So we write month, day, year.


Thanks, I see now :D

Dates can be confusing when they cross international borders. What you write as 3.28.09 is written in England as 28.03.09 or 28/3/09. Problems arise when the day of the month is less than 13, so a document referring to a date 4/3/09 could be 4th March or 3rd April depending on who wrote the document.


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28 Mar 2009, 6:16 pm

TallyMan wrote:
(Does not apply to America)

Reminder

UK and France change tonight. Does the rest of Europe change too? What other countries change tonight?

If you changed your WP time zone to the wrong time zone a month ago to work around the WP time zone bug, then you will need to change it back to the correct time zone again tonight/tomorrow morning.


Most of the summer-time-observing world changes tonight. Just about all of Europe starts summer time tonight. And southern hemisphere nations such as Australia end summer time and return to their respective standard times tonight. Local variations do exist.



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28 Mar 2009, 9:17 pm

yeah...we've been contrarians since Daniel Webster purposely started (mis)spelling English words so we'd be more 'different'...;)

The whole scheme changed about a year or two ago. They thought the extra daylight would generate more sales. Who knows, Obama may change it back...;)



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28 Mar 2009, 10:14 pm

I am confused now did we set it back a few weeks ago :?



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29 Mar 2009, 3:36 pm

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I am confused now did we set it back a few weeks ago :?


Silence of the bob topic

Bob, in Canada we set the clocks ahead one hour early on March 8 this year. you are way off if you turned yours back an hour. :lol:


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29 Mar 2009, 4:39 pm

Righty_Spring Forward, Fall Back.

Don't mess with the time machine....and we don't actually 'lose' or 'gain' time, just the arbitrary clocks change. Sort-of defies physics, yes?


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06 Apr 2009, 10:20 pm

Mine flashes 12:00, right twice a day.



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06 Apr 2009, 11:07 pm

TallyMan wrote:
LabPet wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
3.18? Is that a date? I'm used to Americans putting the day and month in the opposite order to everyone else on the planet but 18th day of 3rd month would be a Wednesday not a Sunday. :?


Oh, first apology: I meant the 8th (Sunday) not the 18th (Wednesday) of March for Dayligh Savings.

Most Amercans write dates as (for today, as an example - March 28, 2009, Saturday) as 3/28/09. Unsure, I'm an Alaskan (bit different than the continent in some ways) as 3.28.09, usually just dropping the '09' since we know 2009. So we write month, day, year.


Thanks, I see now :D

Dates can be confusing when they cross international borders. What you write as 3.28.09 is written in England as 28.03.09 or 28/3/09. Problems arise when the day of the month is less than 13, so a document referring to a date 4/3/09 could be 4th March or 3rd April depending on who wrote the document.


The best way I overcome this for absolute clarity is to write 7 Apr 2009 which is today's date. There is no point truncating it to just 2 digit numbers any more. It's clear and easy to understand across many borders. So many forms always ask for the date in 2 digits and 4 digits for the year. I grew up thinking only the UK plays with their clocks every year.