{"id":2149,"date":"2009-03-07T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2009-03-07T15:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T19:11:40","slug":"savings-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2149","title":{"rendered":"Savings Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e&#8217;re going to DST this weekend (as shown in this <a href=\"http:\/\/inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca\/images\/time_services_images\/TZ06SSE.jpg\">picture with so many pretty colours<\/a>), which came to a surprise to many. Currently, at 6:30 AM, there&#8217;s already plenty of light to shoot photos at 100 ISO: By Sunday, it&#8217;s probably time to change your pants into shorts. If I&#8217;m not wrong, Europe is still basking in the dark at 7 AM: compare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/astronomy.html?n=16\">Amsterdam, NL<\/a> (haha intentional abbreviation pun) with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/astronomy.html?n=749\">Saint John, NB<\/a>: there&#8217;s almost 20 minutes difference there.\n<\/p>\n<p>The only reason why we&#8217;re going so early to DST is (of course) because of the silly US Energy Act of 2005 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1466\">previously at xsamplex<\/a>). Now might probably a good time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1548\">follow-up<\/a> on this.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\"><strong>Update 1: <\/strong> DST in Europe starts on March 29th.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going to DST this weekend (as shown in this picture with so many pretty colours), which came to a surprise to many. Currently, at 6:30 AM, there&#8217;s already plenty of light to shoot photos at 100 ISO: By Sunday, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301],"tags":[350,302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}