>>>Hi Michel,
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>>>All the new messages I see now are 1 hour behind the US time. Should I just leave with this for a week or try to adjust my settings?
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>>I wish they just forgot this daytime saving rubbish. There's just too much daylight in the summer - when the evening finally comes, it's late. This time of year, anything you need to do earlier in the morning, it's still night.
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>>There are hundred of other ways to save energy, instead of screwing up the schedule of the whole world. Specially now with CFL and LED lights.
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>There is a know lost of energy do to DST.
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>But I like to sit in a beer garden on summer evenings... The effect here in the north is much better then where you live.

Hear Hear! Our mid-summer light goes on till c 10-10:30.. Even more so in France and, I expect, Germany, where there is double daylight saving hours.