The changover to Daylight Saving Time this weekend brings up this question: Has "DST" become "Standard" time, since it now takes up eight months of the year?
Everyone I know in the travel and transport industries hates time changes. They are very expensive to deal with - the more so since not all countries change at the same time - and they confuse customers. Every time there's a clock change you can be sure some people will miss a service by forgetting to change their clocks.
Most countries - China being just one - manage without changing their clocks at all (and indeed China manages to cope with just one time zone across the entire country).
The UK will not change its clocks at the same time as the USA in 2012 - in common with most northern Eurpoean countries we will change on 25 March.
For those of us who have to deal with the irritations of time changes, there is a list of the changes in most countries of the world here - http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/2012.html
Richard English
Posts: 8038 | Location: Partridge Green, West Sussex, UK
I absolutely think we could do without changing the clocks. I hate it that it's so dark in the morning now. It's worse for us because we are right on the edge of the time zone.
