Daylight Savings Time and the Weekly VoIP Hurricane Prep Net

Hello to all….

We have started Daylight Saving Time this week. The VoIP Hurricane Net will continue to be at its time slot of 0000 UTC. This means the local time for the net will be 0000 UTC minus 4 hours in 24 hour time versus minus 5 hours in 24 hour time like it was previously in US time zones when we were not in daylight savings time. Internationally, it may differ depending on your location.

To give a couple of examples, for folks participating on the East Coast of the US, the net was at 7 PM EST. Instead, the net will now be at 8 PM EDT. For those in other time zones in the US, the net will be an hour later than it was previously. For international time zones depending on where you’re located, it could be an hour later or an hour earlier.

Many will now ask why we don’t simply keep the same local time for the net. The reason we are not doing that is while the US has sprung ahead an hour, other parts of the world are entering fall and have or will be turning their clocks back. Therefore, we keep the time of the net in UTC so that everyone internationally can have a better chance of participating based on an internationally recognized time versus locking the net into a local time zone that may not be good for other areas that check-in regularly.

I realize this always bring confusion but regardless of what we do, I think there will be confusion here. Hopefully, this note will help dispel confusion for those who want to participate in the weekly net.

The Yahoo calendar, which also has its limitations, has been updated to reflect the Eastern Daylight Time net start of 8 PM EDT. The VoIP WX Net web site will be updated similarly as well.

Hopefully, we will get many check-ins on the net and people will adjust to the time change for the net correctly. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net 1 1

Hello to all….

We have started Daylight Saving Time this week. The VoIP Hurricane Net will continue to be at its time slot of 0000 UTC. This means the local time for the net will be 0000 UTC minus 4 hours in 24 hour time versus minus 5 hours in 24 hour time like it was previously in US time zones when we were not in daylight savings time. Internationally, it may differ depending on your location.

To give a couple of examples, for folks participating on the East Coast of the US, the net was at 7 PM EST. Instead, the net will now be at 8 PM EDT. For those in other time zones in the US, the net will be an hour later than it was previously. For international time zones depending on where you’re located, it could be an hour later or an hour earlier.

Many will now ask why we don’t simply keep the same local time for the net. The reason we are not doing that is while the US has sprung ahead an hour, other parts of the world are entering fall and have or will be turning their clocks back. Therefore, we keep the time of the net in UTC so that everyone internationally can have a better chance of participating based on an internationally recognized time versus locking the net into a local time zone that may not be good for other areas that check-in regularly.

I realize this always bring confusion but regardless of what we do, I think there will be confusion here. Hopefully, this note will help dispel confusion for those who want to participate in the weekly net.

The Yahoo calendar, which also has its limitations, has been updated to reflect the Eastern Daylight Time net start of 8 PM EDT. The VoIP WX Net web site will be updated similarly as well.

Hopefully, we will get many check-ins on the net and people will adjust to the time change for the net correctly. Thanks to all for their continued support of the VoIP Hurricane Net!

73,Rob-KD1CY.
Director of Operations for the VoIP Hurricane Net 1 1