# BBC - Clock changes: EU backs ending daylight saving **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [August 31, 2018, 11:43am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080 "2018-08-31T11:43:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![johnny.dollar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@johnny.dollar](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/johnny.dollar)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/21 "2018-09-03T22:35:58Z")
> [@Emrobu](#): > > Saskatchewan is like… the farmeriest place on earth and they’re all: nah. Definitely laughed out loud…only because I’ve been to Saskatchewan…“for sure” ---
**Author:** ![jdcavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jdcavo/32/108_2.png) [@jdcavo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jdcavo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/22 "2018-09-04T10:36:28Z")
> [@Emrobu](#): > > And, unfortunately, unless you want to live in NE BC, Saskatchewan, an island in the Hudson’s Bay, a forgotten corner of Ontario, or possibly the new province of Maine, you will still have to change your clock. What’s the deal with Newfoundland and their time zone? ---
**Author:** ![Emrobu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/emrobu/32/6696_2.png) [@Emrobu](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Emrobu)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/23 "2018-09-04T14:21:46Z")
> [@jdcavo](#): > > What’s the deal with Newfoundland and their time zone? Have you ever been to Newfoundland and/or Labrador? You’d better visit for yourself, I’m not qualified to explain: I’m from away. ---
**Author:** ![jdcavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jdcavo/32/108_2.png) [@jdcavo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jdcavo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/24 "2018-09-04T14:27:09Z")
Unless a 3 hour re-fueling lay-over in Gander counts, I’ve never been there. I’d like to, but just traveling to/from anywhere else eats up at least 2 days of limited time. The closest I have gotten is Meat Cove, NS. ---
**Author:** ![Emrobu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/emrobu/32/6696_2.png) [@Emrobu](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Emrobu)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/25 "2018-09-04T14:31:59Z")
I will ask, and report back as accurately as I can. But it wont be the same without the brogue. Survey says: this is the far east, that’s where its to. ---
**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/26 "2018-09-05T11:39:54Z")
> [@Emrobu](#): > > Have you ever been to Newfoundland and/or Labrador? You’d better visit for yourself, I’m not qualified to explain: I’m from away. I did a job up on Newfoundland some years ago. Damaged thruster on a semi that was towed across. Stayed in Marystown for about a week. I don’t really recall issues with the time. . . other than it was winter and dark for most of the day. . . It was very interesting, to be sure. I was even married to a Canadian at the time, but these folks are very different. . . . ---
**Author:** ![jdcavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jdcavo/32/108_2.png) [@jdcavo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jdcavo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/27 "2018-09-05T11:49:11Z")
> [@cmakin](#): > > I don’t really recall issues with the time. . . Their time is a half-hour off from surrounding provinces, that’s a bit different. ---
**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/28 "2018-09-05T12:14:40Z")
Come to think of it. . . yeah. . . hell, it was almost 20 years ago or so. . . . ---
**Author:** ![KPChief](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kpchief/32/26_2.png) [@KPChief](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/KPChief)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/29 "2018-09-05T12:17:26Z")
No doubt a remnant of the brief viking settlement early on, speaking of different. ---
**Author:** ![jdcavo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jdcavo/32/108_2.png) [@jdcavo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jdcavo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/30 "2018-09-05T12:30:21Z")
> [@KPChief](#): > > No doubt a remnant of the brief viking settlement early on, speaking of different. And/or perhaps validation of the rhyming 3-word appellation for a local… ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/31 "2018-09-05T12:34:34Z")
Maybe more to do with British colonial influence than viking settlement a thousand years ago. Other former British colonies still retain the 1/2 hr. difference from standard time zones: > [@](#): > > **Newfoundland** , **India** , **Iran** , **Afghanistan** , **Burma** , **Sri Lanka** , the Marquesas, as well as parts of **Australia** use half-hour deviations from standard time, and some nations, such as **Nepal** , and some provinces, such as the Chatham Islands of **New Zealand** , use quarter-hour deviations. Some other former colonies (like Singapore) have change to regular time zones after independence. ---
**Author:** ![KPChief](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kpchief/32/26_2.png) [@KPChief](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/KPChief)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/32 "2018-09-05T12:49:53Z")
^ the last of the cod strikes the hook… ---
**Author:** ![Memel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Memel](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Memel)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2018, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080/33 "2018-09-29T00:18:36Z")
Makes sense, Newfoundland was still a crown colony until after WWII, not part of Canada. [Previous page](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/bbc-clock-changes-eu-backs-ending-daylight-saving/49080.md?page=1)