Don't blame that one on us seppos. We don't call is 'summer time', but
Daylight Saving Time, which is rather silly too, but makes no statement
about when any seasons start.We start DST pretty close to the equinox on
the first Sunday in April. However, we end it on the last Sunday in
October, over a month after the equinox. I believe the EU starts a week
earlier and ends at the same time. We could have started it here a
couple of weeks ago. We've just had 2 weeks of exceptional weather, with
highs in the mid70s to low 80s F.
I believe the Cross Quarter days are much better season indicators than
the Solstice/Equinoxes. Still not perfect, depending on local patterns
and annual variation. Your Fall and our Spring would then have started
in early February at Candlemas and our Summer, your Winter starting with
Beltane in early May.
Moose
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Your computer clock is wrong. Summer ended with the end of Feb., not
>with the autumn equinox. It is a stupid and I suspect yank habit to
>define the beginning of spring and autumn with the equinox - the
>impliction would then be that the solstices do the same and summer
>would begin on midsummers day - plainly absurd.
>Resist this bizarre concept - we have been in autumn for some time already.
>And how's the weather and where travelest thou?
>Andrew
>
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