Re: Eastercon and travel and GMT

David Goldfarb wrote:
> 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.
> 

But still much earlier than it has been in years previously to that.

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Jette Goldie
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