It is that time again, certainly for the Brits, clocks forward tonight please. I am not sure but you might need to adjust the time difference to the FT clock, depends on when they change their clocks.

Australians, you will almost certainly need to adjust your clocks when the FT clock changes since you go the other way, have I got it correct?

In the U.S., we get to wait another week (April 4) for DST. Anybody know why there are no international standards? For travelers to the EU or from the EU to the U.S. it's got to be a scheduling nightmare.

You are correct, Sue. Our clocks go backwards by an hour (with the exception of Queensland, who do not need their daylight saved), and with the Americans being slow off the mark, it is making the closing of sports tipping competitions a nightmare...

I rely heavily on a site called time and date - it has all the Daylight Savings adjustments listed.

No need for me to adjust my clocks either. Like Queensland, Western Australia does not observe daylight savings time!

This means I can stop taking an hour off the time when looking at the clock in the car. This one never did get altered from last time.

I was an hour early for everything today. Better that that other day of the year when I am an hour late!

Having started this thread, guess who forgot to change her clocks?! I was in bed this morning and listening to the radio which was on in the bathroom and was slightly bemused that they seemed to hvae started a programme early - whoops. I must now go and change my boiler timer...

We were in a hotel room in Aquileia is north-east Italy (Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region), with a great view of church tower, which had a clock on top. We had a bus to catch in the morning, and when we woke up, we were rather relaxed, but only when we looked out of the window and saw the church clock did we realise that we were yet to set the clocks forward! We missed out bus, but fortunately there was another one exactly an hour after the one we missed, so there wasn't any great harm done. Thank goodness there were no connections to be made or anything!

It's really surprising; you don't really expect church clocks to be so well-maintained! This church was a major tourist attraction (it dates back to Roman times!), but still, you think of church towers as basically abandoned places, their sole purpose being to harbour bats, mice and the such...

I've changed all mine!

Ozz that site is great, I plugged in about ten time zones and it works very well.

We're already calculating the time difference with the family back in Europe and waiting another week in CA. Funny as we had a run of summer weather already therefore it felt as if it would never arrive.

I remember when the UK didn't change the same day as France and the rest of the continent. I think we had a flight to London or Glasgow and normally you take an 11 am flight and arrive at 11 am because the passage takes about an hour from France. However, let's see if I get this right, during this week long space, you'd take a flight then the hour disappeared.
I think Tabby Tom is needed...I know it happened in the eighties, or am I mistaken?
Sue you'd probably know as well as your island is closer to France and you get the tourist trade.

The other problem is that in Indiana, you have one bit of the state that observed it differently, and you have the rest of the surrounding ones that do. You must be very cautious when you book flights out of Chicago not to miscalculate.

I’ve never managed to overlook the spring change, but I’ve missed out on my extra hour in bed in the autumn three times. Twice in my college days I strolled into college at what I though was 1 p.m. for a Sunday lunch and heard the clock striking twelve. And about ten or fifteen years ago, when I was planning to get up early for some reason, I woke up at what I thought was about 7 a.m. and went out to get a newspaper. The newsagent, who was just starting to unpack his bundles of papers, smiled at me and asked whether I hadn’t forgotten something last night.

I think there have been several lots of complications between the UK and France. If you look at a map, it’s obvious that both countries ought to be in the same time zone, but the French decided years ago to use Central European Time, an hour ahead of Greenwich. I haven’t been out of Britain for years and years, but I used to go to France a lot in the 1960s, and in those days the French didn’t have daylight saving at all. So in the summer the time was the same in both countries, and in the winter France was an hour ahead ( the Dover-Calais ferry crossing took half an hour by the clock from France to England and 2½ hours the other way). For a few years in the late 60s and early 70s the UK experimented with keeping the clocks ahead of Greenwich all the year round, but that was very unpopular up in Scotland. We certainly didn’t always change at the same time as the rest of Europe: I’m not sure when we finally came into line (it was probably an EU directive or something).

Sue - religiously went round changing all the clocks, forgot the Central Heating and my own wrist watch - changed the wrist watch this morning (monday) and spent the rest of he day looking at my wrist (left the watch on the table!)

Bringing this back up since the time change is tonight in the U.S.
Spring forward!