On 2 Sep 2021 at 20:25:27, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 02/09/2021 20:11, MRAB wrote: > >>> In one of them (I can't recall which is which) they change on the 4th >>> weekend of October/March in the other they change on the last weekend. >>> >>> >> In the EU (and UK) it's the last Sunday in March/October. >> >> In the US it's second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November. >> >> I know which one I find easier to remember! > > Interesting. I remember it as closer than that. The bugs we found were > due to differences in the DST settings of the BIOS in the PCs. (They > were deliberately all sourced from DELL but the EU PCs had a slightly > different BIOS). > > The differences you cite should have thrown up issues every year. > I must see if I can find my old log books... >
ISTR that the USA changes were the same as the EU until a few years ago. I remember thinking at the time it changed "why would they do that?" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
