No, it’s not Daylight Savings Time yet!

Well, it’s not daylight savings time in the USA yet, but it is everywhere else in the world. Yes, Europe changed today even if America didn’t.

Don’t reach for those alarm clocks just yet — you have one more week to go before the end of daylight saving time.

Daylight
saving time typically ends the last weekend of October, but starting
this year, a change in federal law changes the date.

Clocks should be set back one hour at 2 a.m. Nov. 4.

The problem with only America changing is that it entirely screws up all international traffic. For decades the entire world has been trying to coordinate this time change. There was a time when England and France (only 26 miles apart at one point)  changed on different weekends. Flights, trains, ferrys, all had to change their timetables for that one or two week period until the other country caught up.

So all over the US today and for the next week there will be people missing their connections if they’ve come over an international border. Great going guys, a move backwards. So why did it happen? Well, thank these guys:

The bill amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 by changing the start and end dates of daylight saving time from 2007. Clocks were set ahead one hour on the second Sunday of March (March 11, 2007) instead of the first Sunday of April (April 1, 2007). Clocks will be set back one hour on the first Sunday in November (November 4, 2007), rather than the last Sunday of October (October 28, 2007). Lobbyists for this provision included the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and the National Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation Fighting Blindness;

Not surprisingly, the Airlines fought against it. So for anyone who gets stuck in an airport over the next week….send a thank you letter to the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, why don’t you?