Neaco

Of to Brussels for a weekend trip - can somebody confirm that the clocks go
back this weekend in the UK *AND* the rest of Europe?

TIA

Louis XIV

"Neaco" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Of to Brussels for a weekend trip - can somebody confirm that the clocks
    > go back this weekend in the UK *AND* the rest of Europe?
    > TIA

Nope, it's the 31st.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/features...e_clocks.shtml

Neaco

    > Nope, it's the 31st.
    > http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/features...e_clocks.shtml

Bugger - and there was me hoping I'd have use of my 5* hotel for an extra
hour!!

Thanks

666

How much do they charge for an hour?
JaC


    > Bugger - and there was me hoping I'd have use of my 5* hotel for an extra hour!!

Owain

"Neaco" wrote
    | Of to Brussels for a weekend trip - can somebody confirm that
    | the clocks go back this weekend in the UK *AND* the rest of Europe?

No, that was British Summer Time before 1994 - it was the day following the
fourth Saturday in October.

The 9th EC Directive prescribes the start and end dates of summer time as
the last Sundays in March and October respectively. The 9th Directive
provides that these start and end dates should apply indefinitely.

http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc
&lg=EN&numdoc=32000L0084&model=guichett
Article 3
From 2002 onwards, the summer-time period shall end, in every Member State,
at 1.00 a.m., Greenwich Mean Time, on the last Sunday in October.

Owain

EvelynVogtGamble

I'm curious - I knew Europe was on a different schedule, but
is it consistently a week earlier than the U.S.? (For
beginning "daylight saving" too?)

Neaco wrote:

    > Of to Brussels for a weekend trip - can somebody confirm that the clocks go
    > back this weekend in the UK *AND* the rest of Europe?
    >
    > TIA
    >
    >

EvelynVogtGamble

Owain wrote:

    > "Neaco" wrote
    > | Of to Brussels for a weekend trip - can somebody confirm that
    > | the clocks go back this weekend in the UK *AND* the rest of Europe?
    >
    > No, that was British Summer Time before 1994 - it was the day following the
    > fourth Saturday in October.
    >
    > The 9th EC Directive prescribes the start and end dates of summer time as
    > the last Sundays in March and October respectively. The 9th Directive
    > provides that these start and end dates should apply indefinitely.

Nice that the whole world is becoming consistent. (Except
for states in the U.S. like Arizona, which don't observe it
at all!)

Frank F. Matthews

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

    > Owain wrote:
    >
    >> "Neaco" wrote
    >> | Of to Brussels for a weekend trip - can somebody confirm that
    >> | the clocks go back this weekend in the UK *AND* the rest of Europe?
    >> No, that was British Summer Time before 1994 - it was the day
    >> following the
    >> fourth Saturday in October.
    >> The 9th EC Directive prescribes the start and end dates of summer time as
    >> the last Sundays in March and October respectively. The 9th Directive
    >> provides that these start and end dates should apply indefinitely.

    > Nice that the whole world is becoming consistent. (Except for states in
    > the U.S. like Arizona, which don't observe it at all!)

Of course they do. In the Winter they are on Mountain Standard and in
the Summer they switch time zones to get Pacific Daylight time. They
not only observe it they switch time zones as well.

Mark Hewitt

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > I'm curious - I knew Europe was on a different schedule, but is it
    > consistently a week earlier than the U.S.? (For beginning "daylight
    > saving" too?)

I think so, yes.

What about other countries?

Frank Hucklenbroich

Am Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:48:55 GMT schrieb Neaco:

    > Of to Brussels for a weekend trip - can somebody confirm that the clocks go
    > back this weekend in the UK *AND* the rest of Europe?

Negative for Brussels and the rest of (western) Europe, they are set back
in the night from the 30st of October to the 31st of October (to be correct
at 3 am on the 31st to 2 am on the 31st).

Britain is different ;-)

Regards,

Frank

nospamplease

Frank Hucklenbroich <[email protected]> writes:

    > Negative for Brussels and the rest of (western) Europe, they are set back
    > in the night from the 30st of October to the 31st of October (to be correct
    > at 3 am on the 31st to 2 am on the 31st).

It happens at 1am GMT on the last Sunday in October in all EU
countries, west, east, north, south or wherever they are.

    > Britain is different ;-)

No. It's exactly the same as all the others.
Read the EU directive here:
http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=EN&n umdoc=32000L0084&model=guichett
and its UK implementation here:
http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/s...2/20020262.htm
--
-- Chris.

Ken Wheatley

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:35:19 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
<[email protected]> wrote:

dates should apply indefinitely.
    >Nice that the whole world is becoming consistent. (Except
    >for states in the U.S. like Arizona, which don't observe it
    >at all!)

It's certainly a little confusing. Last summer I found myself in a
Hopi village - which doesn't observe daylight saving, which was
totally enclosed by the Navajo nation - which does observe it - inside
Arizona. Which doesn't.

Hatunen

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:59:21 +0100, Ken Wheatley
<[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:35:19 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >dates should apply indefinitely.
    >>Nice that the whole world is becoming consistent. (Except
    >>for states in the U.S. like Arizona, which don't observe it
    >>at all!)
    >It's certainly a little confusing. Last summer I found myself in a
    >Hopi village - which doesn't observe daylight saving, which was
    >totally enclosed by the Navajo nation - which does observe it - inside
    >Arizona. Which doesn't.

It doesn't help to avoid confusion to know this, but the Navajo
Nation follows the New Mexico practice, because its capital is
there, I suppose.

************* DAVE HATUNEN ([email protected]) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *

EvelynVogtGamble

Frank F. Matthews wrote:

    > EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
    >
    >> Owain wrote:
    >>> "Neaco" wrote
    >>> | Of to Brussels for a weekend trip - can somebody confirm that
    >>> | the clocks go back this weekend in the UK *AND* the rest of Europe?
    >>> No, that was British Summer Time before 1994 - it was the day
    >>> following the
    >>> fourth Saturday in October.
    >>> The 9th EC Directive prescribes the start and end dates of summer
    >>> time as
    >>> the last Sundays in March and October respectively. The 9th Directive
    >>> provides that these start and end dates should apply indefinitely.
    >
    >
    >> Nice that the whole world is becoming consistent. (Except for states
    >> in the U.S. like Arizona, which don't observe it at all!)
    >
    >
    > Of course they do. In the Winter they are on Mountain Standard and in
    > the Summer they switch time zones to get Pacific Daylight time. They
    > not only observe it they switch time zones as well.

LOL!

    >

EvelynVogtGamble

Ken Wheatley wrote:

    > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:35:19 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >
    > dates should apply indefinitely.
    >
    >>Nice that the whole world is becoming consistent. (Except
    >>for states in the U.S. like Arizona, which don't observe it
    >>at all!)
    >
    >
    > It's certainly a little confusing. Last summer I found myself in a
    > Hopi village - which doesn't observe daylight saving, which was
    > totally enclosed by the Navajo nation - which does observe it - inside
    > Arizona. Which doesn't.

Oh dear, I had no idea it was THAT complicated!