Summer time

Hi, don't know if this is the most appropriate group
to ask this, but I was wondering what was the
reason to choose 3 am as the time to deduct 1 hour
today in Europe. I mean, why at 3 am instead of
1 am, so to say? Simply a convention? Or is
there any (astronomical) reason to choose that time?

Regards,
David.-

David A. Caabeiro wrote:
Hi, don't know if this is the most appropriate group
to ask this, but I was wondering what was the
reason to choose 3 am as the time to deduct 1 hour
today in Europe. I mean, why at 3 am instead of
1 am, so to say? Simply a convention? Or is
there any (astronomical) reason to choose that time?

Regards,
David.-


David,

Don't know about Europe, but in the US it has to do with
pretty much no one having anything scheduled to do at 3 am,
and with the bars closing at 1 or 2 am. If DST changed at,
for instance, 2 am, then on this one night, bars could stay
open an extra hour, from the POV of the drinkers. (And the
reverse in the spring, of course.)

Tom McDonald
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"David A. Caabeiro" wrote in sci.astro:

Hi, don't know if this is the most appropriate group
to ask this, but I was wondering what was the
reason to choose 3 am as the time to deduct 1 hour
today in Europe. I mean, why at 3 am instead of
1 am, so to say? Simply a convention? Or is
there any (astronomical) reason to choose that time?


Midnight, hardly any action, hardly or no trains running - the appropriate
time to turn the clock back and forth.

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