--- Desmond Nazareth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All:
To those of you who tried to watch Episode 5 of
Contacto Goa in INDIA today,
we really apologise for the following:
Our program broadcast started a FULL hour earlier
(7:15PM) than we had
announced (INDIAN time) because Portugal changed
clocks TODAY due to the
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS policy -- the Lisbon local time was
moved forward by one hour.
We were not aware of this change of clocks and
nobody who was aware thought of
informing us. We can only blame our ignorance, as in
India we have no such
policy of daylight savings.
Desmond,
Although I do not have a chance to watch RTPi (as I do
not have a cable TV connection), still, Daylight
Savings Time is a queer beast.
Here too in the antipodes, we have DST, but only
affects the southern states (NSW (Sydney), Victoria
(Melbourne) and South Australia (Adelaide)), with the
dates of change being the last Sunday in Sept and last
Sunday in Mar.
However, in 2000 (Sydney Olympics) and this year
(Melbourne Commonwealth Games), the dates of the
changeover were changed, which led to application of
special patches to NT and Unix servers, as well as
having other inconveniences, like remembering that the
date of change is different just for this year.
Funnily enough, some people in public service haven't
been aware of the change of dates in Melbourne, so
that today (we're just past the normal DST changeover,
but DST doesn't really change over'till the 2nd week
of April due to C'wealth Games) some clocks in public
buildings read one hour behind. So also is the clock
on my TV and my PC (I did not download the patch).
Just to let you know that it is not just Portugal that
has the DST changes.
Cheers,
Gabriel de Figueiredo.
Melbourne - VIC - Australia.
PS the next great international event in Melbourne is
the Grand Prix - the fever has started!
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