For anyone travelling this weekend...

As I said in the other posting on the same subject, we can thank the candy lobby for pushing our change date to the first weekend in Nov. It is already getting dark at 6 so it will be before 5 next week. Time to hang the outdoor lights and brighten up the place.

Ah, yes the lovely period when the number of hours between and NYC and the UK are not what we're used to! Synched meetings become unsynched. Cross-Atlantic tete-a-tetes become unmoored as both sides of the Atlantic try to remember just what exactly is the time difference between NYC and Cambridge? Between Chicago and Dublin? Between Denver and Paris? Between San Fransisco and Madrid? Alright, that last one is always difficult to manage within standard business hours! :)

It is only a week Pamela. You can adjust. My engineering son who has must of the west starting with Chicago through Hawaii under his hat has to spend about six to eight weeks a year in Hawaii. Gets up every morning at 4am in the hotel because clients and staff want access on mountain and west coast time. It is a bit of a grind.

Thanks for the reminder Phillip!

This issue actually affects me on Sunday. I'm in Amsterdam and have an early morning transatlantic flight back to Newark. The hotel I'm in does have a notice on their desk about the issue. I use my iPhone as an alarm clock. Will my iPhone do the daylight Time adjustment automatically as I sleep ? I know it would if I were back home, but does the fact that I'm traveling complicate things?

.....also for those Soccer fans who watch the champions league on ESPN and Fox sports, the matches next week will start at 3:45pm eastern instead of the usual 2:45pm.

last year I was in Prague with a friend of mine from Kansas, on the sunday morning we were out in a park near Prague for a walk and then went for an early lunch and wondered why it was so quiet.Had arranged to go to a friends house for 3.00pm for afternoon drinks and turned up an hour early where he told us the clocks had go back.so two us got it wrong.

Michael - if you go to "parameters" on your phone, you can check to see if it's already set to make the change or you can adjust it.

Thanks for the reminder. Taking the train tomorrow from Glasgow to London. I can use the extra hour of sleep.

For situations where you really need to know, you can Google "current time in XXX."

Michael: for your iPhone, it may depend if your phone is getting the time from the telephone company signal. Mine is set to do this, and did it fine in Israel and Spain. For some reason, while in the UK, I kept getting notifications that this feature was not working, and then getting directed to the settings screen to choose other options. Since the time zone wasn't changing, it didn't matter for my trip, but it would have this weekend. However, I have an Android phone and was roaming with T-Mobile US; who knows what would have happened with other phones and networks.

Thanks Harold and chexbres I think I've gotten over my temporary panic from this morning . I am 99% sure the phone will make the change automatically when I'm sleeping. As a back up plan I'm considering attending the all night movie marathon tonight at a cinema here in Amsterdam. From midnight until 5 AM they will be showing nothing but American slasher films in honor of Halloween :)