Washington. This year, the month of October was very important for geo politics, by the end of the month an important meeting is going to take place between top leaders from all over the world. Many people may feel that a conference call has been missed or time has suddenly slipped somewhere. This is going to happen because once again that strange time has come when Europe and the United States will be out of sync as there will be a switch from daylight saving time to standard time.
Not all countries follow Light Saving Time but it is followed in Europe and North America. The date for changing the clocks varies for these countries, this is because the rules related to time were made differently in different places.
What will the time difference look like?
In countries where it is followed, clocks are set one hour ahead of standard time in March to take maximum advantage of the increase in daylight hours in summer in the Northern Hemisphere. As the winter season approaches, the clocks return to standard time. In the UK and Europe, this occurs at 2am on the last Sunday in October but in the US and Canada, the clocks go back one hour at 2am on the first Sunday in November.
The week in between means that the time difference between both sides of the Atlantic – for example between London and New York – is an hour smaller than usual, which can make managing Zoom calls or other meetings difficult.