Occasional Observations

How mad is this: in old Europe, the clocks go back this weekend to Daylight Saving Time ... and a week later in the New World.

Welcome to timezone chaos. It's complicated enough scheduling calls with people in multiple timezones, but there's a small window: the much-loved 8am California time/ 5pm Central European time. Except that next week, this becomes the 8am/4pm slot. The week after, we're back to the nine hour time difference.

Now factor in the need to get participants on the line from Beijing, California, Germany and Australia. It's a headache and a middle-of-the-night call for someone, anyway. So let's make it more complicated by trying to remember that the clocks don't change in China - so they're another hour ahead of Europe through the winter.

Thank goodness for the World Time Server.

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