I feel Dave's pain as I am a long time fan of BBC and other european shortwave stations (now mostly only accessible on Internet streams alas), and yes non-synchronized Summer Time switches make life *interesting.*
0000 utc > Yes, *that* week Boston/NY time is still UTC-05, Eastern Standard Time (EST); we don't shift to Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) until the *following* weekend. (USA has, last decade, switched to switching before the UK in spring and after UK in fall. And yes, we use S for Standard not for Summer, just for confusion!) So yes it would be *0000 UTC Wednesday, 10 March* for any European night-owls wishing to tune in. (We don't expect a lot of such, hence not catering to in the announcement.) According to the TZ zonefile data - using my borrowed and enhanced diagnostic Perl script to find systems which had outdated zonefiles when the shift-shift occurred in 2007 - $ TZ=America/'*New York*' perl ~/bin/dst.pl Sun* Mar 14 01:59:59* EST 2021 --> Sun Mar 14 03:00:00 EDT 2021 $ TZ=Europe/*London* perl ~/bin/dst.pl Sun *Mar 28 00:59:59* GMT 2021 --> Sun Mar 28 02:00:00 BST 2021 # if you can't remember the name of the zone ... $ TZ=$(*tzselect*) perl ~/bin/dst.pl Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly. Please select a continent, ocean, "coord", or "TZ". 1) Africa 2) Americas ... -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@pm.org https://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
