I leave my XP pc on UTC all the time. I use the Casablanca, etc time zone
and it's always right for UTC, GMT, Zulu or whatever you wish to call it.
Would it not be very easy to remember or write yourself a note by the pc and
change it before the contest starts?
Mike K9MI
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Pruett" <k8cc@comcast.net>
To: <Aldewey@aol.com>
Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 14:16
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CWSS and daylight savings time
> All:
>
> I find this whole discussion amusing. It is a perfect example of the
> reason we have UTC, or zulu time, and why we, as radio operators, should
> use it as our frame of reference.
>
> The SS rules do not define the contest in terms of local time. It is
> defined in universal time. The contest starts and ends at the appointed
> universal time. Local time is irrelevent, except if YOU decide to view
> the contest in that manner.
>
> How DST affects your logging computer is a Windows issue if your
> computer is set to compensate for it. When the DST conventions change,
> Windows will likely not compensate correctly, but this doesn't change
> when the contest starts and ends.
>
> Maybe I'm putting too fine of a point on it, but it a number of e-mails
> seem to indicate that people think the contest period moves because DST
> changes, and that simply isn't so.
>
> Dave/K8CC
>
>
> Aldewey@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 9/23/2007 7:03:03 P.M. Central Standard Time, Aldewey
>> writes:
>>
>> The way I understand it, we will start at the same time (3 PM in the
>> midwest) but then ending time will be one hour earlier on the wall clock
>> (i.e 8 PM
>> in the midwest).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> After talking to KI9A off line, I realize I had things backward. For
>> some
>> unknown reason, I was thinking that DST was starting rather than ending.
>> Since we are still in DST at the start of SS, it will indeed start one
>> hour later
>> (i.e 4PM in the midwest) and end at the normal time (i.e 9 PM).
>>
>> I still have concerns whether all logging SW will handle this
>> seamlessly.
>>
>> Any reassuring words from guys like N1MM, K8CC, N6TR, K1EA, etc?
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Al, K0AD
>>
>>
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