Re: Eastercon and travel and GMT

In article <frmv4r$dhl$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Paul Dormer <prd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> It seems that up to 1980, BST started the Sunday before the vernal
>> equinox, but then changed to the last Sunday in March.  It's not
>> uncommon for the clock change to occur the Sunday of the convention,
>> but I think this may be the first Eastercon to be entirely in the
>> GMT period.
>
>The change to daylight saving time was unusually early in the US this
>year, due to more random tinkering by politicians.  We've been on it
>for weeks already.

Actually, going off of winter time was done at the same time this
year as last.

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