Daylight Saving Time

[MarkG]

yeap

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by alva



Will London stop at nothing, how long before the EU is ruled by London dammit !!!
Don't even think of taking away my beloved € and changing it in that wrethched £
Countless of generations have used that € for christ's sake....

Whilst I said it in jest, I also meant that the UK hasn't changed its daylight saving days for over 20 years. Most (if not all) other EU countries adopted the same DST implementation dates as the UK back in the late 90s.

[DrSpike]

I did not actually know that. Might come in handy for some trivia show some day.

[Dis]

this is confusing.

You know what's even more confusing is the earth's rotation is slowing down like 1 second every few years or so. I believe it is due to that annoying moon. So not only do you have leap years, you have leap seconds.

[alva]

More trivia:

Leap years:

When year/4 = a whole number
but NOT when it's century turnover unless you can divide it by 400.

Maybe a example will make it easier to understand my gibberish

Leap year       Not a leap year
2000                      1900
1996                      2001
1904                      500
1600                      1700
8                              7

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Dissident
You know what's even more confusing is the earth's rotation is slowing down like 1 second every few years or so. I believe it is due to that annoying moon. So not only do you have leap years, you have leap seconds.

Actually, its not slowing down that fast, a day increases in length by 1.5-2 milliseconds per century. Since 'the second' was defined in the 19th Century the Earth's rotation has slowed such that a day is ~2 milliseconds longer. Over the course of a year that accumulates to about 0.7 seconds.

[johndmuller]

I wonder if the year 8 was a leap year; was there even an August then?

[BigFurryMonster]

Originally posted by Jamski
BST (British Summer Time) which itself is GMT+1

Correct. The Time Zones on Apolyton should read: BST +X instead of GMT +X.

Example: I'm in Central Europe. I can select the "GMT +1" time zone for my country, but I'm actually on GMT +2 now since we have daylight savings. Therefore, the country/city display does not match with the time display.