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I'm in the eastern time zone in North America and I always thought I was 5 hours behind Greenwich, but my automatic setting on RHP says I'm 4 hours behind. Is that because we've switched over to daylight savings time here while the UK has not?
I do not like losing or gaining an hour twice a year. I'd much rather stick with one time the year round. Not for one second do I buy the argument that changing times saves energy, and there's no need to add an hour of daylight in the evening in the summer months. At least a couple of places in North America stick with the same time all year, and to me that is far less confusiong and far more logical and convenient.
Anyone else feel that way?

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Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn
I'm in the eastern time zone in North America and I always thought I was 5 hours behind Greenwich, but my automatic setting on RHP says I'm 4 hours behind. Is that because we've switched over to daylight savings time here while the UK has not?
I do not like losing or gaining an hour twice a year. I'd much rather stick with one time the year round. Not hat is far less confusiong and far more logical and convenient.
Anyone else feel that way?
I switch from 5 to 4 to 5 to 4 to 5 to 4 depending on the time of year. It's always been this way. If you don't change it, you live an hour off half the year.

-4 after spring
-5 in the winter

P-

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
I switch from 5 to 4 to 5 to 4 to 5 to 4 depending on the time of year. It's always been this way. If you don't change it, you live an hour off half the year.

-4 after spring
-5 in the winter

P-
Yes, but if that switch was not made, what difference does it make if everyone stayed the same? That switch was originated in World War I and to me it no longer makes any sense.

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Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn
I'm in the eastern time zone in North America and I always thought I was 5 hours behind Greenwich, but my automatic setting on RHP says I'm 4 hours behind. Is that because we've switched over to daylight savings time here while the UK has not?
The UK has switched, too (although not at the same time), but RHP runs on GMT which doesn't change.

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I grew up in Iowa, which observes DST. Life was fine.

Then I moved to Indiana, one of only two states that didn't observe DST. My sister moved to the other. It was nice not waking up in the spring an hour too late.

Then Indiana started DST about a year ago. Having lived with it for most of my life it was no big deal. But oh, it was fun watching Hoosiers trying to cope.

What a mess was made over such a simple thing. (seemingly). At first the whole state was going to switch together. The time zone border was going to be redrawn to include the whole state. Then the decision, which time zone to align with? It used to be half the year Central, the other half Eastern. Now we had to pick our favorite time zone.

Counties in the NW and SW wanted Central to be with Chicago, counties in the Southeast wanted to be in Eastern with Cincinnati and Lousville. People everywhere else didn't want any change.

In the end we went with Eastern without the area around Chicago. Now I have to tell my computer I live in New York so it automatically adjusts to the right time rather than tell it I live in Indy, otherwise I would spend half the year an hour behind.

np

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Originally posted by AttilaTheHorn

Anyone else feel that way?
I'm Zoned most of the [i]time.[i]

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Attila, you are right. It's an absolutely unnecessary exercise.

And daylight saving? Those who want to enjoy more of the daylight are welcome to rise earlier. Thank you.

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Originally posted by Ponderable
Attila, you are right. It's an absolutely unnecessary exercise.

And daylight saving? Those who want to enjoy more of the daylight are welcome to rise earlier. Thank you.
It's more than just unnecessary. It causes a major inconvenient disruption twice a year in business and people's lives. It's not easy adjusting to this useless practice every few months, and there's no vaild reason for having it.

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It does have one important purpose; the main reason it is still maintained. That is so children spend less time travelling to and from school in the dark!....allegedly.

However, there is also a statistically noted spate of more car accidents when the hour of sleep is lost!

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I'm from Australia and we're GMT +9:30. I can't get the proper time because there's only GMT +9 and GMT +10. I aslo have daylight saving, so I have to have +10:30

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I think everyone should be switched to Greenwich meantime.
Okay, it does mean that some people will work from 23:00 to 05:00 (that being their day time), but at least you can say:

"Will we chat at 13:00?" It would make communication so much easier.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
I think everyone should be switched to Greenwich meantime.
Okay, it does mean that some people will work from 23:00 to 05:00 (that being their day time), but at least you can say:

"Will we chat at 13:00?" It would make communication so much easier.
The only problem would be that the rough times are unclear: so when is evening or moring if everybody uses GMT?

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Originally posted by shavixmir
I think everyone should be switched to Greenwich meantime.
Okay, it does mean that some people will work from 23:00 to 05:00 (that being their day time), but at least you can say:

"Will we chat at 13:00?" It would make communication so much easier.
Totally agreed. It already pretty much works that way in the aurora fora and mailing lists I am on; sightings are reported in UTC, and the most dedicated people seem to have switched to UTC entirely.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
The UK has switched, too (although not at the same time), but RHP runs on GMT which doesn't change.
Hey Nordlys, it would probably be really confusing for you to observe the midnight sun at 11pm or 1am, right?

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Originally posted by Ponderable
The only problem would be that the rough times are unclear: so when is evening or moring if everybody uses GMT?
That would be easy enough to learn for your own time zone, and if you don't know what time of the day it is for someone else, they could just tell you whether it's morning or evening. You could also still refer to local times for that purpose while using GMT/UTC as the standard.