{"id":2262,"date":"2009-03-09T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2009-10-18T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T14:41:56","slug":"public-service-announcement-time-difference-reduced-by-one-hour-for-three-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Announcement: Time difference reduced by one hour for three weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Clock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.public-domain-photos.com\/free-cliparts-4\/signs_and_symbols\/clocks\/analogue_clock_01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"104\" \/>British baseball fans are quick to learn how the different US time zones relate to our own.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0You only have to mess-up the start time of\u00c2\u00a0one important game (and we&#8217;ve all done it) before you imprint them in your brain.\u00c2\u00a0 Typically we know to add five hours\u00c2\u00a0on to times listed in Eastern Time (ET), six hours\u00c2\u00a0for Central Time (CT)\u00c2\u00a0and eight hours\u00c2\u00a0for Pacific Time (PT).\u00c2\u00a0 That 1pm start in New York therefore begins at 6pm in Britain, while a 3pm\u00c2\u00a0start in Minnesota is 9pm here and\u00c2\u00a0a 7pm\u00c2\u00a0first pitch\u00c2\u00a0in Los Angeles makes for a sleepy 3am start.<\/p>\n<p>However, the switch to daylight saving time can complicate matters when the two countries don&#8217;t change at the same time.\u00c2\u00a0 That has been the case this year as the U.S. has moved to DST this past weekend, while British Summer Time will not be in effect until Sunday 29 March.\u00c2\u00a0 So for the next three weeks, those well-remembered time zone sums need to be revised.\u00c2\u00a0 We are now four hours ahead of ET, five ahead of CT\u00c2\u00a0and seven ahead of PT.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, I have written this after nearly missing the start of a game on MLB.tv today, despite\u00c2\u00a0knowing that the US was moving to DST early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British baseball fans are quick to learn how the different US time zones relate to our own.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0You only have to mess-up the start time of\u00c2\u00a0one important game (and we&#8217;ve all done it) before you imprint them in your brain.\u00c2\u00a0 Typically we know to add five hours\u00c2\u00a0on to times listed in Eastern Time (ET), six hours\u00c2\u00a0for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}