Daylight Saving Time

[S485122]

The poll is not really applicable in western Europe, Brussels for instance is situated 4° 26' 9 " East. With "winter" time (UTC -1) that would give sunrise at 6:42, sunset at 18:42. With "summer" time (UTC -2) that would give sunrise at 7:42, sunset at 19:42 almost double DST ! For Brest in western France the winter times would even be 07:18 / 19:88 and summer times 08:18 / 20:18. If you go to western spain in the Galicia province you can be at 9° 15' West, still using CET, DST sunrise 8:37, sunset 20:37...

Jacob

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by S485122

The poll is not really applicable in western Europe, Brussels for instance is situated 4° 26' 9 " East. With "winter" time (UTC -1) that would give sunrise at 6:42, sunset at 18:42. With "summer" time (UTC -2) that would give sunrise at 7:42, sunset at 19:42 almost double DST ! For Brest in western France the winter times would even be 07:18 / 19:88 and summer times 08:18 / 20:18. If you go to western spain in the Galicia province you can be at 9° 15' West, still using CET, DST sunrise 8:37, sunset 20:37...

Jacob

You are talking about the equinox. At our latitudes, the variable
length of the day lends more sense to changing the clocks than
in California say.
BTW if UTC were 6:00 and CET 7:00, why do you say CET=UTC-1 ?

David

PS As JS Bach would say: "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbestes Zeit" ;)

[petrw1]

The Poll doesn't work very well for us in Canada either.

In Saskatchewan we are always on DST (our clocks never change ... great for IT people ... ) ... one of only a few places in all of North America.

However, to your poll:

By June 21 we get sun up before 5:00 AM and sunset close to 10:00 PM.
On a work day in the summer I can play a round of golf before work and another after work.
By December 21: Sun up about 9:00 AM; sunset about 5:00 PM.
We leave for work in the dark and come home in the dark

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by S485122

The poll is not really applicable in western Europe

Sure it is - your examples are simply illustrative of the local geographical and where-am-I-with-respect-to-my-time-zone considerations one might use when deciding on one's answer to the poll. It's very simple: for places in the world which use a one-hour-separated binary summer/winter time scheme, which of the 2 schemes would the folks in the respective regions prefer, if they had to pick one and use it year-round? I don't see how that is unapplicable in Europe, Canada, Elbonia, etc.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by axn1

Why? It's just one more week.

And here it is
See "British Summer Time" thread.

[Xyzzy]