Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)

Short reminder: Tonight, Europe switches from DST back to regular time. The US will not switch until *next* weekend.

So check your calendars whether regular appointments have suddenly moved. Everything scheduled in European time will be 1 hour later for US folks, everything scheduled in US time will be one hour earlier for Europe folks.

Oct 26, 2024 at 2:24pmWeb
Show threadCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Oct 26, 2024
@uliwitness @thisismissem I am horrified that EU also suffers from DST. That crap needs to go away!
Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Oct 26, 2024
@catsalad @thisismissem @sycophantic Fun fact: The EU decided years ago that they would abolish DST, but the decree included all of Europe agreeing on a common time zone, and that apparently is so difficult we're still doing this nonsense.
Show threadEmelia 👸🏻Oct 26, 2024
@uliwitness @catsalad @sycophantic what? How does that make sense? There's roughly 3 or 4 each 45-60 minutes apart
Show threadCatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) Oct 26, 2024
@thisismissem @uliwitness @sycophantic Nothing beats China's 1 timezone 
Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Oct 26, 2024
@thisismissem @catsalad @sycophantic Might just apply to the big, irregularly-shaped central European time zone (and then affect the ones nearby by keeping their offset), I don't remember the details.
Show threadJoachimOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness @thisismissem @catsalad @sycophantic
I think the idea was that the EU would keep the existing timelines but they be frozen to eternal „summer“ or „winter“ time but the EU countries couldn’t agree on which one to pick.
Show threadĽuboš Moščovič  Oct 26, 2024

@catsalad @uliwitness @thisismissem

It's even worse. There were endless discussions about this topic... since 2017-2018... there was even a poll where people clearly said "no" to regular changes... There was even "the day", but then Covid happened and plan was postponed to, well, never...

I hate this shit, it's killing me twice a year.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/10/28/when-will-the-eu-end-seasonal-clock-changes-only-time-will-tell

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/seasonal-time-changes/

When will the EU end seasonal clock changes? Only time will tell.

Time in Europe is political and ending the twice-yearly practice will require a lot of political decisions. #EuropeDecoded

euronews
Show threadpetur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼Oct 26, 2024
@uliwitness this is perfect, one week I can miss all meetings and blame this
Show threadotheorange_tagOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness { ahaha! @quantensalat } #BaroqueSun
Show threaddeBaerOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness The whole daylight saving theater is such a messy mess. If you ever wondered why there are, to this day, two different time zones for Germany called "Berlin" and "Büsingen", it's because the latter didn't have DST in 1980 whereas the former did.
Show threadT🎃NOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness
Whoa! Thanks for the heads up! Got an early morning bus out of Tirana tomorrow!
Show threadAnimatronic PumpkinOct 26, 2024
@uliwitness I would like to hope Outlook has this handled, but it’s Outlook, so I’d really better double check that Wednesday morning meeting
Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Oct 26, 2024

@jaycatt7 It's not a technical problem, it's a human problem. If you have the same appointment every week, and a colleague in the US created it, then an EU user might not expect it to suddenly move an hour (or might think it a bug).

Also, it depends on how your appointments are created (did someone attach a time zone?), or whether you even bother having a calendar. (I didn't have one for the first decade of my career, probably longer)

Show threadfiendishauburnOct 26, 2024
Ah, somebody's post from last night make a lot more sense
Show threadlimar_echoOct 27, 2024
@uliwitness This timeshifting concept should be dropped in my opinion... unnecessary complication.
Show threadJoshua JungOct 28, 2024
@uliwitness It’s nice that Apple scheduled some OS updates for this week, so we get them one hour earlier than usual.