How does the rest of the world adjust to the US’s decision to change daylight savings?
September 16th, 2009 Posted by: admin
Since the US has decided to change the date of Daylight Savings, that will obviously create a time problem in the other time zones around the world. Do other countries adjust change their clocks based on the American decision?
By: cryptical70
By: cryptical70
Tags: American Decision, Daylight Savings, Time Problem
September 18th, 2009 at 06:59
Oh dear.
The actual standard for time is in the UK, not the U.S. The UK always changes to and from DST on different weeks than the U.S. anyway. It will continue as before.
I just have to remember to leave it for an additional hour before I call my parents in the U.S.
September 20th, 2009 at 18:44
Hi Cryptic!
Ideally, everyone will eventually change their start and end dates for Daylight Time to match the US. Don’t hold your breath waiting, though.
Airlines and broadcasters just have to do temporary schedules and timetables with one fewer hour between the US and Europe. Remember that since both North America and Europe already have several time zones that businesses have to allow for anyway, it’s not like they don’t already have experience with multiple time differences.
Those who deal between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres must also cope with different dates AND directions of time change. For instance, while we in the US were turning our clocks ahead, Chile and Uruguay were setting theirs back for the end of Daylight Saving. In northern summer, Chile is two hours ahead of me in New York, but in northern winter we share the same time zone.
Likewise for Europe and Australia, which change their clocks the same day, but in different directions. Toss into this the complication that the state of Western Australia adopted Daylight Saving for the first time in December 2006, and you can see that the change of dates for us in North America is really no great shakes in the grand scheme.