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My recollection is that the fall change was done primarily to provide another hour of daylight for trick-or-treaters on October 31. Doug On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:19:11AM -0400, Richard Wiggins wrote: > As it happens I'm flying to Europe this coming weekend. Europe didn't > change the rules. It makes things mighty confusing for the airlines > and for travellers to be out of sync. I can't imagine how the one > extra week in autumn amounts to any significant savings. > > /rich > > On 10/29/07, Kwiatkowski, Nicholas <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > Just a heads up for everybody on the list -- This previous weekend was the > > weekend that normally resulted in the change between Daylight Savings Time > > and Standard Time, had the energy savings act of 2006 not gone into effect. > > > > Older, unpached devices, including handhelds, cellular telephones, Unix > > machines, etc. may have changed time if they followed the old DST rules. > > These devices will be one hour behiend. > > > > DST officially ends NEXT WEEKEND, the 4th of November at 2am. > > > > -Nick Kwiatkowski > > MSU Telecom Systems -- Doug Nelson, Network Manager | [log in to unmask] Academic Computing and Network Services | Ph: (517) 353-2980 Michigan State University | http://www.msu.edu/~nelson/