Guild Wars 2

Just to alert those who are paying even less attention than I am:

Much of the US will be “springing forward” this weekend, meaning setting the clocks ahead one hour overnight Saturday to Sunday. Getting up in the morning will be extra hard since it’ll feel like an hour earlier than it is.

For those making the change, your daily reset will be one hour later on the clock than it has been (e.g. eastern time zone folks will get the game reset at 8 pm now, not 7). For those not making the change but with friends who are, your friends’ school and work schedules will be altered by one hour and they will be ready for things an hour earlier than you’re used to.

I’m not sure on boss timers, as I generally just check a timer site with a countdown, but if you’re used to finding a boss event by time of day make sure you’re in sync with it. I imagine the events will remain on the current rotation and it’s spring-forwarders who will have to adjust mentally to whether something happens on an odd or even hour.

Always confusing for me. I live in Arizona and we don’t change (why exactly would we want more sunlight?) while most the rest of the country does. So we end up switching from Mountain time to Pacific time, essentially.

Thanks for the heads up. Again, not changing = not paying attention to when it happens.

Lol, I can relate DeanBB. I’m from Saskatchewan and we don’t change either. Usually the only reason I know it happens is cause someone has said something or I realize I’ve shown up late for my own guild event XD

For people who do spring forward an hour, the world boss schedule will indeed be different.

As for why daylight savings time exists, it’s to allow for more sunlight hours in the day during winter, which encourages people to shop more. It actually does have a sizable impact on businesses, particularly in regions further north where the days get noticeably shorter in winter.

originally it was more so the day is actually day and night starts on time (no pun intended), the shopping part came later because of modern times.

anyway, i always change the time the saturday before it changed, i am not up that late anyway and with the time going forward it can mess things up if i don’t do this on time.

Thanks for the reminder!
I’d heard nothing about it on the news. >_>

Xiahou Mao.9701:

For people who do spring forward an hour, the world boss schedule will indeed be different.

As for why daylight savings time exists, it’s to allow for more sunlight hours in the day during winter, which encourages people to shop more. It actually does have a sizable impact on businesses, particularly in regions further north where the days get noticeably shorter in winter.

basically people had to be more in tune with when the sun was out in order to work, so the general schedule of the day would shift drastically for the time of the year.
sometimes you gotta get up at 5 am, and other times 8 am. daylight savings reduces that.

It was meant primarily for cost reduction during periods before large-scale consumer energy existed primarily for farming and business practices during periods where light came from oil lamps and candles. Changing the clock hour to better sync with the daylight changes of the seasons led to lower energy costs and made farming days easier through the temperature differences between early morning and midday, and midday and afternoon/evening.

It’s only really noticeable in colder-climate northern regions where without it, the sun would rise too late in the morning in winter and set too early in the summer. Even now it has some relevance in winter because of how late sunrise is and how early the sun sets; it would waste a lot of energy to provide light on a global level because of the darkness of the season.

Good to know, as most of the rest of the world that does change to summer time will only do that at the last weekend of March… I can never remember when the US changes….