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my company has offices all round the globe and this year for some reason the DST changes in various places have not been handled at all well and still have people trying to schedule stuff at different times from each other. I think this is a consequence of our schedules being set up in parts of the world that dont have DST and not understanding that clocks have changed elsewhere.
Anyway, that's the background, but what I was wondering, and you gentlefolk may know, is whether the UK will be following the EU and not change the times back in the Autumn. Is that covered in this limbo period of partial EUness?
The EU decision is not to change clocks twice a year. It has been left to each country to decide which they stick on. Ireland might choose summer time especially if France , Germany etc stick to Central European time.
Northern Ireland and Irish republic could be on different time settings.
clock change madness on 13:45 - Apr 14 by Pinewoodblue
The EU decision is not to change clocks twice a year. It has been left to each country to decide which they stick on. Ireland might choose summer time especially if France , Germany etc stick to Central European time.
Northern Ireland and Irish republic could be on different time settings.
yes, I was just wondering if we were going to follow suit.
If we dont Northern Ireland will be on different time settings from the Republic at least part of the year.
Catches out quite a lot of people/tools in the electricity industry each year as well.
Electricity in the UK is settled by the half-hour, so for 363 days a year there are 48 settlement periods. Clock change therefore gives one shorter (46 period) day and one longer (50 period) day to deal with every March/October.
Not sure why I thought anybody would like to know this, but there we are.
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clock change madness on 13:57 - Apr 14 with 893 views
clock change madness on 13:55 - Apr 14 by JakeITFC
Catches out quite a lot of people/tools in the electricity industry each year as well.
Electricity in the UK is settled by the half-hour, so for 363 days a year there are 48 settlement periods. Clock change therefore gives one shorter (46 period) day and one longer (50 period) day to deal with every March/October.
Not sure why I thought anybody would like to know this, but there we are.
I can't tell you the amount of fun bugs it's caused from a programming perspective.
In fact, date and time in generally are just a constant source of pain.
clock change madness on 13:57 - Apr 14 by DanTheMan
I can't tell you the amount of fun bugs it's caused from a programming perspective.
In fact, date and time in generally are just a constant source of pain.
I know! Every year we get so many DST related issues in my industry, the whole thing is a costly pain in the @rse. I still don't know if we are going to follow the EU and ditch it, but I hope we do.
Depends on what side of the clock change people want to be on. Leave it on winter time and in the summer it’ll be light at about 3am and dark by 9pm. Leave it on summer time and it in the winter it won’t get light till 9am at the shortest day.
It’s all about making the most of the daylight. Being a farmer the clocks changing work fine for me, as in summer I work from 6:30am till 10-11pm most days meaning I only work an hour or so in the dark.
However I do appreciate other jobs and industries suffer differently with the change in time. Is there something that could change in those companies that could aid the process?
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Newcastle time.... on 15:15 - Apr 14 with 762 views
We do quite well out of it. Get a call out my heating hasn't come can you check it out. Yes £50 to change a programmer timing. Hive & nest are screwing it as automatically adjusts time, guess that's progress