When I was a kid, I didn’t know what was DST.
I always see the word daylight saving time printed on my old Casio digital watch. But I have no idea what it was. All I knew was that there would be time differences during the summer and such. Still I didn’t get it.
Then there was Champions League football. I would wake up in the middle of the night just to watch Man United play. I noticed how the kickoff times started to change from 2.45am to 3.45am towards the end of October. Not forgetting also the usual EPL kickoffs time from 7.45pm to 8.45pm.
I started to get a grasp of what DST is all about.
So, one day I looked up the Internet, asked Google and it replied with a simple phrase about DST.
Spring forward, fall back.
In simple terms, countries that observe DST will shift their clocks 1 hour forward during the spring so the sun appears to rise 1 hour later and sets 1 hour later thus making the day longer. And vice versa during the fall.
Therefore, I’m now 7 hours behind Malaysia.
Most of central Europe countries turned their clocks 1 hour backwards after daylight saving time has ended. I remember that DST will end sometime towards the end of October but I didn’t know it was on October. As far as my memory can recall, it’s on this coming weekend.
And when I checked again on Saturday night only did I realize that I had to turn my clock 1 hour backwards on Sunday 3.00 am to 2.00 am.
It suddenly appeared to me that winter is really coming. The sun used to set about 630pm last week. This week it’s 530pm.
The cloudy and rainy weather didn’t help either.
When I was here in December last year, the sun rose at 8.30am and set at 4.30pm.
Now, I really feel winter is coming real soon…