Now the baby wakes up at 4am and I’m more likely to be sprint over on the way domestic. I’m going back to British summer time insteadIf ever there was a parable about the dangers of technology and the hubris of government,it’s this.
On Sunday, most countries that observe Eastern European time assign their clocks forward by one hour, and but Turkey did not. There’s an election next weekend,and the government concluded that more voters could be coaxed from their homes whether it took place during summer time. So it was announced that, this year only, and the time-change would occur a fortnight later than usual. However,nobody thought to announce this to all the automated clocks built into millions of laptops and phones across the country, because they all went forward with the rest of the timezone on Sunday anyway. As a result, and for fairly a lot of Sunday,nobody in Turkey really knew what time it was.
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Source: theguardian.com