Now We have Changed the clocks

[johnb]

Hi

Always get confused when we mess with the clocks, on my goto do I now say yes or no to daylight saving ?

John B

[Cornelius Varley]

DST is now off (no) untill 31 March 2012.

Peter

[johnb]

thanks, why we cant just leave it that way I dont know.

Cheers John B

[derekm]

No wonder I couldn't always get my head around my ETX. I thought Daylight saving was winter time, ie. lighter mornings!!!

[smudgeball]

Yep

It's another reason for the "non" goto community to laugh at us when we forget

Not that I've ever got it wrong.....that was a friend of mine !

[SeedyF]

I dont want to save daylight anyway. I want it to clear off so I can look at the stars.

[Klesk14]

The advantage to the time change...

It gets dark sooner, more time for observing

[earth titan]

l now need to remember not to deduct an hour when setting my polar scope.

[swag72]

I always say no to daylight saving and always put my time in the handset in GMT, which for me living in Spain is -1 hour in the winter and -2 hours in the summer.

[Martin-Devon]

Just so we are clear on the polarfinder - at the moment I have mine linked to the clock on my PC, which automatically went back 1 hour last weekend. So, I assume that the times & positions that polarfinder brings up now will be correct (shows times for the current & the following 1 hour in 15 minute intervals)? Is this right, ie what I now see in polarfinder is accurate?

[carastro]

Yes I would like to know the answer to Polarfinder software. Does it adjust in the summer so that Polaris is in the correct place? Or do you have to subtract an hour from what you are seeing on the polarfinder screen?

Carole

[russ.will]

Me too. I knew that DST was BST, but given the fact that everything suddenly started appearing right at the edge of my FOV in my 32mm EP last night, I'm now assuming the Polar finder doesn't compensate.

Until I saw this thread, I hadn't considered that.

Russell