... don't you hate it when you do that? As I'd
blogged awhile back when we went to Daylight Savings Time I tried explaining the adjustment to my
Maine to NZ time formula until New Zealand's DST. Just trying to be aware of what time and day Ian is functioning in while whatever time it is where I'm at. Well here's a news flash - NZ, being in the Southern Hemisphere, DST change is "fall back" mode, fall is arriving there. That changes things by two hours since the original formula was described - not correcting things back. So now the formula will be: subtract 8 hours from our EST and apply the resulting time
to the next day. If I had a clue this was what was coming I don't think I'd even have started trying to explain it. The lesson: don't mess with the clock when it involves the other side of the International Date Line and the Southern Hemisphere combined.
... don't you hate it when you do that? As I'd blogged awhile back when we went to Daylight Savings Time I tried explaining the adjustment to my Maine to NZ time formula until New Zealand's DST. Just trying to be aware of what time and day Ian is functioning in while whatever time it is where I'm at. Well here's a news flash - NZ, being in the Southern Hemisphere, DST change is "fall back" mode, fall is arriving there. That changes things by two hours since the original formula was described - not correcting things back. So now the formula will be: subtract 8 hours from our EST and apply the resulting time
to the next day. If I had a clue this was what was coming I don't think I'd even have started trying to explain it. The lesson: don't mess with the clock when it involves the other side of the International Date Line and the Southern Hemisphere combined.
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