my daily reset time seems to be changing, at least twice this month. I want to say this is a DST clock shift thing, I'm 90% sure it is but thought I'd check
my daily reset time seems to be changing, at least twice this month. I want to say this is a DST clock shift thing, I'm 90% sure it is but thought I'd check
I'm in Arizona and we don't use daylight savings so when the rest of the world shifts, the reset shifts.
The site internally uses Toronto time, EST or EDT, which has the daylight savings shifts on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November - this will affect the reset time for users not in the USA and Canada, as other areas that use DST have the daylight savings shifts at different dates. A lot of areas do not have DST, e.g. China, India and Russia, and these will have the reset time change by 1h as the USA clocks change. Most of Europe has the DST shifts on the last Sunday in March and October, so the reset time will change for a while in both spring and fall for a period of one, two or exceptionally three weeks. In the southern hemisphere, any DST has to be 'Fall forwards, Spring back' (otherwise it would be daylight wasting time), so the reset time will change probably four times, twice each in the Spring and Fall, with the Summer and Winter reset times differing by 2h.
twice this month
...implies that you are in Europe.
...and also the US Virgin Islands. I was careful in my choice of language to neither include nor exclude inappropriately.
Generally, areas close to the equator do not use DST since the day length variation is not large enough to make the hassle of forcing everyone to get up an hour earlier (for that is what DST fundamentally is) worthwhile unless there are strong enough ties to an area which does use DST; areas close to the poles the day length variation is so extreme that a single hour is not really enough so either DST is ignored (e.g., Iceland, which doesn't even use a 'correct' timezone, staying n GMT all year) or it follows the 'parent' country. Only in the mid latitudes does DST make sense, and then primarily to the industrialised countries who needed to pay for lighting for factories back when it was being introduced, along with standardised clocks; primarily rural areas work to 'sun time' and have/had no need for DST )or even clocks) even if, like the BRIC countries, they have since become industrialised.
New Zealand is currently 12 hours off CET, their "winter time" is first-Sunday-in-April to last-Sunday-in-September (I think) so the gap is 10 hours then. This is important because it influences when updates to https://storiesonline.net/n/58915/amantus are posted.
Generally, areas close to the equator do not use DST since the day length variation is not large enough to make the hassle of forcing everyone to get up an hour earlier (for that is what DST fundamentally is) worthwhile unless there are strong enough ties to an area which does use DST;
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like the BRIC countries, they have since become industrialised.
I know that Brazil tried DST four times between 1931 and 2018. Three of those times and the first three years of the last attempt all of Brazil went on DST on the same time - even the parts of Brazil north of the equator 😎.
I know that Brazil tried DST four times between 1931 and 2018.
I remember flying back from Brazil in the 90's, and was worried that I would be too late for my connecting flight at Rio. Fortunately, there were two instances of 12:30 am that day, and my connection was at the later instance.