
Time Change on November 4
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Re: Time Change coming on November 4
arkess7 wrote:so its really 2 am not 3 ?????
Yep... 2:57am ET right now.
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Brent wrote:RL3AO wrote:I'd like to welcome the east coast back to standard time. And for one hour, it is the same time in Minneapolis as it is in New York.
LOL, here too.
I said something like that in chat before I went to bed at 1a est/cdt.

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Cyclenall wrote:I wonder how they deal with that extra hour in history as? Do they call it 1:00 am (1) and 1:00 am (2)?
Most of that sort of thing is dealt off of UTC--which DST doesn't affect.
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As senor said, the world's official time is not affected. However, some events have happened during that time of night. I once saw a news briefing of a crime that happened as the change was taking place. The police said something along the lines of "The first call came in at 1:50 Eastern daylight time, the suspect was apprehended at 1:10 Eastern standard time, or 20 minutes later."
I've also heard the hours referred to as "the first occurrence of 1 AM" and "second occurrence of 1 AM."
But, official time is measured using Greenwich Mean Time, which is not a time zone, it's an average of how long it takes the earth to go around day by day.
I've also heard the hours referred to as "the first occurrence of 1 AM" and "second occurrence of 1 AM."
But, official time is measured using Greenwich Mean Time, which is not a time zone, it's an average of how long it takes the earth to go around day by day.
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senorpepr wrote:Cyclenall wrote:I wonder how they deal with that extra hour in history as? Do they call it 1:00 am (1) and 1:00 am (2)?
Most of that sort of thing is dealt off of UTC--which DST doesn't affect.
That slipped my mind for some reason but if an event took place during that time, usually they don't use UTC time in books and TV media for example (weather information would offically use UTC no doubt).
\As senor said, the world's official time is not affected. However, some events have happened during that time of night. I once saw a news briefing of a crime that happened as the change was taking place. The police said something along the lines of "The first call came in at 1:50 Eastern daylight time, the suspect was apprehended at 1:10 Eastern standard time, or 20 minutes later."
I've also heard the hours referred to as "the first occurrence of 1 AM" and "second occurrence of 1 AM."
But, official time is measured using Greenwich Mean Time, which is not a time zone, it's an average of how long it takes the earth to go around day by day.
Very good information here.
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