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When we change our clocks
Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.

In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1 am Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It starts the last Sunday in March, and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment.


Pete

I think DST is stupid and needs to be discontinued.

I agree. Plus it is an absolute pain in the ass from an IT and programming prospective.

For me it means much longer work days in the summer. If not discontinued at least reversed. That way the actual daylight according to time would be closer to the same year around. It makes no sense to me to make the already shorter days end earlier and the already longer days end later.

Fender wrote:I agree. Plus it is an absolute pain in the ass from an IT and programming prospective.

Not if your app pulls the time from the system time..
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SOAPboy wrote:

Fender wrote:I agree. Plus it is an absolute pain in the ass from an IT and programming prospective.

Not if your app pulls the time from the system time..
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It still is if your app is international. System time or not. Different countries have different rules. I try to get everyone to store everything in GMT and then adjust the UI layer to perform the offset, but that doesn't always fly. It is also a pain if your database doesn't have very good support. Our DBA will be rebooting the database servers in an hour or so because of that fact. From an IT perspective things would be incredibly simplified if there was no such thing as DST or time zones. "What time is it on Earth?" should be the question. There should be one answer.

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