>>>>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.
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>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.

CET time zone is very large. We are located in the center of it (-6 minutes or so), in Calais its around -53. But we simply are north of the US mostly, so we get longer days in summer. (shorter on winter too, but how wants to see that anyway?)

I lived several years in Mönchengladbach and everytime back I was wondering about early sunset. (You imagine where)