>>>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.

You get 16 hours of daylight in the summer while we only get 14. However, in the winter, we get almost two hours more of daylight so I guess it balances out :o)

I guess you could spend the summer solstice in Iceland and the winter in Chile... :o)