Times Are A Changing....

Last weekend the USA and Canada moved over to Daylight Saving Time (DST) for the Summer months. However, not all US States observe this convention, Arizona and Hawaii stay on their normal time zones (Standard Time) all year around. 

UK and Europe don't change until the end of March, so there are two weeks in between the change when the time difference between Europe and most of the USA states is one hour less than normal. For example Washington is normally 6 hours behind my local time in France, at the moment that has dropped to 5 hours, it will go back to the usual 6 hours once Europe goes to it's Summer time at the end of March.  

I have to be careful when scheduling blog posts at this point in the year, because the blog time is based on East Coast USA time, but we have to set the time on the blog posts based on our own local time! 

Since 2001 the change over to summer time in Europe has been governed by a European Directive, meaning that all EU countries changed over at the same time. Prior to that there were local arrangements for each country!

However, in 2019 the European Parliament voted to allow individual member states to choose if they observed the changing of time in the summer or not, or even to adjust to permanent summer time effectively shifting themselves on the time zone map... fortunately because of the impact of COVID no member states have made any decision on any of these radical changes yet. Basically watch this space!

Confusing isn't it, especially with some countries using half-hour increments such as Australia?  You will spot other areas using half hour increments as well. 

Given that a lot of us are working between different time zones these days, I find it essential to have a time zone map in my organiser. 

Time Zone Map

• A5 .docx .pdf
• A6 .docx .pdf
• Personal .docx .pdf
• Pocket .docx .pdf

Printing the above:

• A5 Print on A4 size paper then fold in half and fold back to the edge (Z fold)
• A6 Print on A5 size paper then fold in half and fold back to the edge (Z fold)
• Personal Print on A4 size paper cut to 171 mm high then fold in half and fold back to the edge (Z fold)
• Pocket Print on A4 size paper cut to 120 mm high then fold in half and fold back to the edge (Z fold)

If you want to use the PNG image for say a dashboard or divider it is here. 

• Time Zone Map