Apple does that all the time. As do just about all tech companies.What idiot plans to do a product launch in in middle of a working day. 2pm, really ;-(
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Apple does that all the time. As do just about all tech companies.What idiot plans to do a product launch in in middle of a working day. 2pm, really ;-(
Wrong. Apple is always 7pm - my timeApple does that all the time. As do just about all tech companies.
Nope, you're wrong. Apple is always 1pm - my time.Wrong. Apple is always 7pm - my time
It appears as though 90% of Americans don't realize what the S stands for and will happily continue to use it during Daylight Saving time months. Or if they think about it, they do realize it means "standard" but imagine "standard" is just "what everyone in the time zone is using as their standard today" (I.e., that it means "non daylight saving time")
I suggest to people who don't want to have to update their business hours on their websites every time the clock is reset, to just use "ET," "CT," etc. That doesn't help the folks in Arizona, for whom "MT" means, effectively, "PT" more than half of the year; they really should spell out "Mountain Standard Time."
(Note for Europeans who might be scratching their heads: Apparently on your continent the "S" stands for "Summer" (what we Yanks call "Daylight"), so it actually has the opposite meaning here than it does for you. So CEST is summer time, CET is winter time in Central Europe, here EDT is summer time, EST is winter time on our east coast.)
Or they could have just posted the time in GMT/UTC format and let everyone figure it out much more easily...
Just post everything in Newfoundland Daylight Time year round.
I did a test web page that no matter where you are on earth, it will give you the solar time at my house. I thought about implementing it on a clock face on my home page, but never got around to it. Right now it is 12:03pm here.
Yes, my PHP code interpolates an approximation of the equation of time. The file name on the server is “eot.php” as I recall. It gets UTC from the server, adjusts for the longitude of my house, and adjusts for the equation of time at the moment. I think it is generally accurate within a few seconds. So it is a 24-hour sundial, just easier to read more accurately. “Mean solar time” is no fun. Bu5 I don’t need to use it, since I have an app on my phone and Apple Watch that gives current solar time.Just to be clear, actual solar time (sun crosses the meridian at noon, but days are not of uniform length--this is what a sundial will show) or mean solar time (sun crosses the meridian at noon on average)? The latter is straightforward to get to from whatever-time-zone-you-are-in's time provided only that you know what longitude you are at. Getting to the former requires the equation of time and/or an analemma chart.
Yes, my PHP code interpolates an approximation of the equation of time. The file name on the server is “eot.php” as I recall. It gets UTC from the server, adjusts for the longitude of my house, and adjusts for the equation of time at the moment. I think it is generally accurate within a few seconds. So it is a 24-hour sundial, just easier to read more accurately. “Mean solar time” is no fun. Bu5 I don’t need to use it, since I have an app on my phone and Apple Watch that gives current solar time.
Back before I gave up on my lawn mower and hired a yard guy, I took sun time into account when considering when to do yard work. The day we change back to standard time is usually the day here when sun time and clock time get the closest, about six minutes apart. Right now, as I said, it is about an hour and a half.
When I got back from Italy in the fall, after going back and forth between time zones and into standard time, I decided to leave the Roman shades up in my bedroom to help me readjust to EST. There are three large windows facing north with woods not that many feet away, so a glorious view in the fall anyway. I have left them open, and now with nothing scheduled, I find myself operating more or less by the sun more than the clock.