OMG What Time Is It?

Have you ever felt this anxiety before? Are you a person who is significantly impacted by the changes in the clock as so many locations around the world shift into or away from daylight savings time? Time and time again (pun intended) places in the USA vote to remove this shift, yet somehow when that Sunday morning comes around in the fall or the spring, those clocks are still moving backward or forward messing up people’s circadian rhythms for another week.

Daylight savings began on a small scale after WWI and then expanded after WWII. According to Pewresearch.org

• 1/3 of the countries in the world practice daylight savings

• Some countries (USA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, etc.) have daylight savings in only part of their country

• Some countries have multiple time zones (Portugal, Russia, USA, Canada, etc.) to be accounted for in government operations

• 1/5 of the world’s population lives in the UTC+8 time zone which includes China, Indonesia, Australia, etc.

Wake, yawn, look at my watch…8:04…hmm, I should get up. Though retired now, and not worried about work, I did have some things to do today.

Yawn, look at my phone…7:04…what the hell?!

What Day is it here in Portugal? What time is it here in Portugal? Did I accidentally change the time on my watch, which I wear to bed these days? Am I in a time warp?

Jumping out of bed I hurry to the computer. Today is October 26th. The clock says 8:07. I manually set the time zones. Am I in the same time zone I was yesterday? Scratching my head…November 2nd is next week when the clocks change for daylight savings at home in the USA. Does Portugal participate in daylight savings?

Throughout all of our advanced research and planning, the concept of daylight savings never surfaced. Google, what’s the answer, please! Does Portugal participate in daylight savings?

• Yes, Europe changes their clocks backward on October 26, 2025.

• Australia and Norfolk Islands changed their clock forward on October 5, 2025.

• Egypt will change their clocks backward on October 31.

• Many countries including the USA, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Bermuda, and Greenland will change their clocks backward on November 2, 2025.

• Many other countries abolished the practice of it.

Man, oh man, why can’t we all abolish it? And what time am I supposed to call my daughter, NOW?! Normally there’s an 8-hour difference, how many hours are different today or next week? Oh, goodness, there’s too much math in this equation.

I NEED COFFEE!!

To learn more about countries participation in daylight savings see this website for world data

Hurry, hurry! Oh My God, I lost an hour with the daylight savings shift! What time is it! How long do I have to get to …?