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Stephen Furley
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posted 09-10-2016 03:24 AM
Thank you. Both countries will still be on Summer time, so we won't fall into that week when one has gone back but the other has not. Eastern will be the usual five hours behind us, and pacific eight hours. All I need to do now is find out where the director will be at the time.
We did our first one of these last year, it generally worked very well, and the picture looked better than I was expecting. At the time we had no network in the auditorium, so had to take the glass out of one of the ports and drop a long cable through it, but we now have fibre to behind the screen, and copper from there to the auditorium trough. Used fibre because it has to run past some electrically very noisy equipment, lighting ballasts, on the way.
Did the last one in a hurry, and have learned a few lessons, one of them being to put a plain background behind our interviewer; there are some free-standing display screen things just up the corridor, I'll grab one of those.
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Leo Enticknap
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posted 09-10-2016 11:31 AM
quote: Stephen Furley Thank you. Both countries will still be on Summer time, so we won't fall into that week when one has gone back but the other has not.
It can be between one and three weeks, depending on the year. This used to cause no end of confusion timing phone calls with relatives in the UK, until I found a widget for my phone that displayed the current Pacific Time and UK Time next to each other, which automatically adjusts accordingly during those two periods in the year when the gap is not eight hours.
BTW, there is a move in California to abolish DST, though the consensus of opinion seems to be that it's unlikely to succeed. The length of the days here are so much more even than they are in northern Europe that, IMHO, it really doesn't make any difference; but maybe that's not so much the case in the north of the state. San Diego and the Oregon border are something like 700 miles apart, after all.
Slightly OT, but this book is a fascinating account of the subject, which, before reading it, I had no idea was so politically controversial.
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Leo Enticknap
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posted 09-12-2016 11:40 PM
quote: Stephan Shelley Not all states or even locals go to Daylight Savings in the first place.
The Uniform Time Act of 1966 removed the ability for cities and counties to set their own time zones and/or individual DST policies: only states can decide whether to use DST or not (according to Wikipedia, only Arizona, Hawaii and some US overseas territories opt not to). Time zone boundaries and the start and end dates for DST can only be set by the federal government.
Before that chaos ruled, with entities as small as a small city being able to decide what time zone they wanted to be in, whether or not to use DST and if they did, when it started and ended!
quote: Wikipedia From 1945 to 1966 U.S. federal law did not address DST. States and cities were free to observe DST or not, and most places that did observe DST did so from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in September. In the mid-1950s many areas in the northeastern United States began extending DST to the last Sunday in October. The lack of standardization led to a patchwork where some areas observed DST while adjacent areas did not, and it was not unheard of to have to reset a clock several times during a short trip (e.g., bus drivers operating on West Virginia Route 2 between Moundsville, West Virginia, and Steubenville, Ohio had to reset their watches seven times over 35 miles).
In summer 1960 April–October Daylight Time was nearly universal in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and states east and north of there. In Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia and states north and east of there, some areas had it and some did not. Except for California and Nevada, which had April-Sept Daylight Time, 99% of the rest of the country used Standard Time year-round. (The Official Guide says "State law prohibits the observance of "Daylight Saving" time in Kentucky but Anchorage, Louisville and Shelbyville will advance their clocks one hour from Central Standard time for the period April 24 to October 29, inclusive.")
In the middle 1960s the airline and other transportation industries lobbied for uniformity of Daylight dates in the United States.
One local example to here was Palm Springs, which had its own time zone, 30 minutes behind the rest of California within the city limits, because the large mountain to the south-west meant that it starts to get dark earlier. From the way the book I linked above describes it, before 1966, if you strayed much beyond the big metros and heavily populated areas, you could never be totally sure what the time was. Given that there were no smartphones or other ways of finding out definitively and accurately what the time was in your current location (other than calling the speaking clock from a landline), that must have been very confusing for everyone.
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