3 posts tagged “daylight saving”

Can someone please explain this first paragraph on the Think Spain site?

Clocks go back an hour this weekend, in the early hours of Sunday morning, as Europe says goodbye to British Summer Time and adopts daylight saving time (Greenwich Mean Time).

   This makes no sense.
   1. Only the UK is on British Summer Time in Europe, I thought.
   2. British Summer Time and daylight saving time are the same thing, aren’t they?
   3. Daylight saving time and Greenwich Mean Time are not the same thing.
   Or has the usage of these terms changed since I learned them?

From the Fairfax Press:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4706912a11.html

Apparently, the dates changed as of this year. So at least I know I wasn’t going mad about the original legislated dates.
   As usual, however, the clocks at this office will not change from Greenwich Mean Time.

Has anyone even seen one single commercial that it’s daylight saving today? Total mystery to me.
   Normally the TV commercials are full of ads reminding us to put our clocks forward. I was still up in the small hours watching Parkinson after dropping a friend off home after he flew back to Wellington last night. I seem to recall that if one was still up by 2 a.m. there would be an announcement by the continuity announcer on TV.
   I know it’s not the media’s responsibility to remind me, but I find it strange, is all, since I have known about all other daylight saving dates in advance in this country. Someone would have mentioned something. This would have been the first one  I didn’t know about or had even heard about. Days ago I was telling Kiwis who had asked me—because they had not heard a peep, either—that from my recollection, New Zealand daylight time began the first Sunday of October.
   Surely the state-owned networks, though, still have some duty to the public to carry national announcements like this? Now that many people work Sundays, I guess a lot of New Zealanders will be arriving at their appointments an hour late today—like me!
   Unless someone’s playing a prank on me and they’re a week early!