[CQ-Contest] CWSS and daylight savings time

[David Pruett]

All:

I find this whole discussion amusing.  It is a perfect example of the 
reason we have UTC, or zulu time, and why we, as radio operators, should 
use it as our frame of reference.

The SS rules do not define the contest in terms of local time.  It is 
defined in universal time.  The contest starts and ends at the appointed 
universal time.  Local time is irrelevent, except if YOU decide to view 
the contest in that manner.

How DST affects your logging computer is a Windows issue if your 
computer is set to compensate for it.  When the DST conventions change, 
Windows will likely not compensate correctly, but this doesn't change 
when the contest starts and ends.

Maybe I'm putting too fine of a point on it, but it a number of e-mails 
seem to indicate that people think the contest period moves because DST 
changes, and that simply isn't so.

Dave/K8CC


Aldewey at aol.com wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 9/23/2007 7:03:03 P.M. Central Standard Time, Aldewey  
> writes:
>
> The way I understand it, we will start at the same time (3 PM in the  
> midwest) but then ending time will be one hour earlier on the wall clock  (i.e 8 PM 
> in the midwest).
>  
>
>
>
> After talking to KI9A off line, I realize I had things backward.  For  some 
> unknown reason, I was thinking that DST was starting rather than  ending.  
> Since we are still in DST at the start of SS, it will indeed start  one hour later 
> (i.e 4PM in the midwest) and end at the normal time (i.e 9  PM).
>  
> I still have concerns whether all logging SW will handle this  seamlessly.  
>  
> Any reassuring words from guys like N1MM, K8CC, N6TR, K1EA, etc?
>  
> 73,
>  
> Al, K0AD
>
>
>
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