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It's good to check, because different places switch to and from daylight savings time on different dates, so you're not always the same number of hours apart during the transition!

I've missed meetings before because of that: "I was there, where were you?" "I was there too! Where were YOU?"

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> I've missed meetings before because of that

The simple failsafe for catching this early is calendar invitations.

It used to be the same for USA and Europe, but one day George W. Bush decided to move US's changeover dates a month earlier in Spring, and a month later in the Fall, messing a lot of things up. Thanks, Dubya!

And just for fun the EU bigwigs had some sort of vote recently that resulted in saying each member country is free to choose whether to keep or abandon DST. What the hell boneheaded move is that?! Why even have a vote, it seems like they thought that would gain them popularity with the public.

> And just for fun the EU bigwigs had some sort of vote recently that resulted in saying each member country is free to choose whether to keep or abandon DST.

No, they decided to abandon DST everywhere. What each member has to decide is whether they'd stay in Summer Time or Winter Time permanently.

It was passed by Congress. Bush just signed the bill into law.

I got away with blaming missing the meeting on Bush, that one time. ;)

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