Daylight Savings Time is an interesting invention. Countries near enough to the equator have no need for such an adjustment since the amount of daylight doesn’t vary much from season to season. Other places such as China don’t bother. After all, when the country is all in one inconvenient time zone anyway, what difference does it make if you shuffle the time by an hour? The heart of Europe and the US are similarly situated relative to the equator and have significant differences in daylight hours between the longest and shortest day of the year. Both have adopted daylight savings time. However, they make the jump at different times. This year, the US jumps ahead today, March 10. In Italy we won’t make the jump until March 31. Since we are normally 6 hours ahead of the US and you are jumping one hour toward us, there will only be a 5 hour time difference for the next three weeks.
In other news, we leave bright and early tomorrow morning for a ten day trip to Campania, Basilicata and Puglia. We will almost certainly have e-mail access, so don’t hesitate to contact us if you need to. However, blogging and uploading pictures will probably take a back seat to everything else which is going on. To compound the issue, we are taking off for an 8 day vacation to the Costa del Sol in southern Spain the day after we return, so it could be quite some time until I blog again. Rest assured however, I will fill you in on all the details once we get back to normal at the end of the month.
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