> On 3 Sep 2021, at 13:40, Bob Martin <bob.mar...@excite.com> wrote: > > On 2 Sep 2021 at 20:25:27, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> On 02/09/2021 20:11, MRAB wrote: >> >>>> In one of them (I can't recall which is which) they change on the 4th >>>> weekend of October/March in the other they change on the last weekend. >>>> >>>> >>> In the EU (and UK) it's the last Sunday in March/October. >>> >>> In the US it's second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November. >>> >>> I know which one I find easier to remember! >> >> Interesting. I remember it as closer than that. The bugs we found were >> due to differences in the DST settings of the BIOS in the PCs. (They >> were deliberately all sourced from DELL but the EU PCs had a slightly >> different BIOS). >> >> The differences you cite should have thrown up issues every year. >> I must see if I can find my old log books... >> > > ISTR that the USA changes were the same as the EU until a few years ago.
I recall that DST changes have been at least 1 week different between the UK and USA since the 80’s. Barry > > I remember thinking at the time it changed "why would they do that?" > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
