12.07
An hour lost with daylight saving time
Hello! My name is Eri Ito, a Japanese motorsport journalist.
I mainly cover MotoGP, MotoE which is the electric two-wheel road racing championship.
This blog is all about Eri Ito’s personal experiences of visiting different countries to cover the MotoGP.
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Europe has daylight saving time, which means that on the last Sunday of March every year, the clocks go forward by one hour.
In other words, one hour disappears. At 2 am.
I was writing an article about the Saturday of the MotoGP Portugal GP at that time.
I was working quite hard, in my own way.
I glanced at my wristwatch and realised that it was one hour off of the time shown on my phone.
I was totally convinced that it should be 2am, but it was already 3am.
Sitting at my desk, lit by the orange light of the hotel, I was so confused, almost going into a panic mode.
– Where had the hour gone to?
Then, I suddenly remembered.
– Oh, that’s right! The daylight saving time.
It was strange to think that an hour had gone away without a trace. At first, I wondered to myself,
– Where had the hour gone to?
But then, I realised it hadn’t gone anywhere.
I finished my work and turned off my laptop.
I turned off the light on my desk.
I lied down on my bed.
I laid my head on the fluffy pillow and the white sheets, and l see the time on my smart phone again.
The digital clock on my smart phone displayed the correct, current time without fail.
I was still concerned about the hour that had not been counted.
