Since posting my previous blog Time and Tide wait for No Man I have noticed a few other examples of where the time had not ‘automatically’ adjusted for daylight saving changes. I say ‘automatically’ because we all have to manually adjust a range of clocks – in our cars, wristwatches, domestic appliances etc., and of course there are many public ones, such as my local surf club which is incidentally still on Summer Time – must be wishful thinking - the weather has been superb and the water is still very warm.
Anyway, the latest example of a time display which I expected to be updated automatically was on my return to Sydney last Friday on an international flight where the flight path display was showing local time (.ie., in Sydney) as an hour out as we were coming into land – it was still on Eastern Summer Time. I expect there were a few rather anxious passengers who were worried about missing interconnecting flights. You see we had been delayed in our departure and some passengers were making enquires even before we boarded!
I found this one rather odd as bookings, e-tickets and many other aspects of the airline business automatically adjust time of origin and destination correctly. I just wondered where this time feed was sourced.
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