It's Daylight Savings Time in the US
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Don't forget, the US is currently switching into DST. Eastern, Central and Mountain times have already gone and Pacific will soon. We are now entering the window where the US skewed from every other country, anywhere. It's Spring Forward, so we all just lost an hour of sleep.
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I hate the entire DST concept, it is just stupid.
Just pick an offset from UT (GMT) and stick with it.
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I hate losing an hour of sleep every year! Although gaining an hour each fall is kinda nice for one night...
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@JaredBusch said:
I hate the entire DST concept, it is just stupid.
Just pick an offset from UT (GMT) and stick with it.
Actually GMT includes DST. The only divergence from a GMT offset that the US does is that we don't do DST on the same dates as GMT. But the East Coast, for example, is always GMT -5 (except for the few weeks in spring and fall when we stay DST longer than GMT does.)
Non-DST offset it UTC. It's UTC -5 and UTC -6 that Eastern time varies between.
I'm a huge proponent of moving to global, universal, DST-free, UTC time for everyone. I believe it is the only rational solution given the need for global business.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I hate losing an hour of sleep every year! Although gaining an hour each fall is kinda nice for one night...
I ended up sleeping 12 hours. I lost nothing!
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@JaredBusch said:
I hate the entire DST concept, it is just stupid.
Just pick an offset from UT (GMT) and stick with it.
Seconded, end this stupid waste of time and stop pretending it makes a difference. Only government could have studies which show it's basically meaningless and then still recommend we do it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
I hate the entire DST concept, it is just stupid.
Just pick an offset from UT (GMT) and stick with it.
Actually GMT includes DST. The only divergence from a GMT offset that the US does is that we don't do DST on the same dates as GMT. But the East Coast, for example, is always GMT -5 (except for the few weeks in spring and fall when we stay DST longer than GMT does.)
Non-DST offset it UTC. It's UTC -5 and UTC -6 that Eastern time varies between.
I'm a huge proponent of moving to global, universal, DST-free, UTC time for everyone. I believe it is the only rational solution given the need for global business.
Thanks wikipenis.
Sounds harsh, I'm just joking, I've been waiting like a month to say that to someone and it hasn't come up, so now it's done.
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@tonyshowoff said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@JaredBusch said:
I hate the entire DST concept, it is just stupid.
Just pick an offset from UT (GMT) and stick with it.
Actually GMT includes DST. The only divergence from a GMT offset that the US does is that we don't do DST on the same dates as GMT. But the East Coast, for example, is always GMT -5 (except for the few weeks in spring and fall when we stay DST longer than GMT does.)
Non-DST offset it UTC. It's UTC -5 and UTC -6 that Eastern time varies between.
I'm a huge proponent of moving to global, universal, DST-free, UTC time for everyone. I believe it is the only rational solution given the need for global business.
Thanks wikipenis.
Sounds harsh, I'm just joking, I've been waiting like a month to say that to someone and it hasn't come up, so now it's done.
Most people use GMT and UTC interchangeably. But that is a typical response from @scottalanmiller on the correct usage of a misused word/phrase. I'm used to it.
Of on a related note, does the UK not actually go for double summer time part of the summer nowadays?
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@JaredBusch said:
Most people use GMT and UTC interchangeably. But that is a typical response from @scottalanmiller on the correct usage of a misused word/phrase. I'm used to it.
It's a very critical difference, though. Some people do use it interchangeably but they aren't. And I've seen IT shops have huge issues because they thought that setting things to GMT meant UTC and they couldn't figure out why they were going in and out of British Summer Time. GMT is what England uses for their actual time, UTC is no one's actual time zone, it's the global one.
Using GMT is how explicitly state the time in England that switches with DST. If you use them interchangeably, you lose the ability to discuss the time in England.
Most people who use them interchangeably also think that England uses UTC.
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@JaredBusch said:
Of on a related note, does the UK not actually go for double summer time part of the summer nowadays?
Years of working for London and I've never seen a double summer time get applied.
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Perhaps slightly embarrassingly, I've never heard of UTC or double summer time. The latter sounds cool though, as I love summer - tell me more!
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Perhaps slightly embarrassingly, I've never heard of UTC or double summer time. The latter sounds cool though, as I love summer - tell me more!
Short version: double summer time is another layer of stupid on top of something already so moronic it defies logic and reason. UTC is the compromise between the french TUC and the english CUT, it's the universal global time, which sometimes lines up with GMT, but not always.
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CUT? TUC? Too many 3 letter acronyms!
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@Carnival-Boy said:
CUT? TUC? Too many 3 letter acronyms!
Just the french and english versions of the same thing, temps universel coordonné and coordinated universal time
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@scottalanmiller said:
Using GMT is how explicitly state the time in England that switches with DST. If you use them interchangeably, you lose the ability to discuss the time in England.
I don't get this or get the difference between GMT and UTC? GMT doesn't switch with DST as far as I knew. In the UK we use GMT in the winter and BST (GMT+1) in the summer.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Using GMT is how explicitly state the time in England that switches with DST. If you use them interchangeably, you lose the ability to discuss the time in England.
I don't get this or get the difference between GMT and UTC? GMT doesn't switch with DST as far as I knew. In the UK we use GMT in the winter and BST (GMT+1) in the summer.
UTC never changes - it's universal. Period. GMT changes based on the season.
This whole discussion came about because someone was saying that that they wanted the US to not use DST and stay simply related to GMT. Scott then informed them that GMT changes just like US timezones do. Scott added, that what the person meant to say was UTC, the non changing time.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@Dashrender said:
GMT changes based on the season.
No it doesn't. Unless I've gone mad.
Gives a whole new meaning to "it's the time of the season"
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Using GMT is how explicitly state the time in England that switches with DST. If you use them interchangeably, you lose the ability to discuss the time in England.
I don't get this or get the difference between GMT and UTC? GMT doesn't switch with DST as far as I knew. In the UK we use GMT in the winter and BST (GMT+1) in the summer.
Interesting - so you're saying GMT itself doesn't change... hmmm... Ok if that's correct, then using UTC and GMT interchangeably should be OK for the purpose of the OP's post.
Similarly in the US, we use EST and EDT to indicate the change standard versus daylight. So I suppose one could argue that EST never changes.
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@Dashrender said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Using GMT is how explicitly state the time in England that switches with DST. If you use them interchangeably, you lose the ability to discuss the time in England.
I don't get this or get the difference between GMT and UTC? GMT doesn't switch with DST as far as I knew. In the UK we use GMT in the winter and BST (GMT+1) in the summer.
Interesting - so you're saying GMT itself doesn't change... hmmm... Ok if that's correct, then using UTC and GMT interchangeably should be OK for the purpose of the OP's post.
Similarly in the US, we use EST and EDT to indicate the change standard versus daylight. So I suppose one could argue that EST never changes.
Well, I was not the OP, only the reply bitching about the switch being not needed
