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Daylight savings confusion

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Submitted by stuckinthebay on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 11:54am

FH got online, like he does every Sunday to call Sd3 on oovoo. It's 9am our time, 7pm SD3 time. He's calling SD3. No answer. Call again. No answer. He checks his email. No status if they were going to be late. He emails BM and asked what's going on. It's 9:20am...still nothing. FH starts getting worried that something may have happened to SD3. Finally, BM replies. She said "it's 6 o'clock here, daylights savings started". FH replies and said "it would've been nice of you to let me know". BM replies "it's not my responsibility". How the hell is FH suppose to know they do daylights savings in Germany?! And that that do it way earlier than we do in the US!? Not everyone in the world practices daylights savings. I've lived in 2 countries that don't do it. FH is making up the time he missed yesterday today.

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Submitted by stuckinthebay on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 12:36pm

Thank for you this. We need to be proactive now after this experience. I will keep FH on top of things so we don't have to rely on her to i for him.

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Submitted by learningallthetime on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 1:15pm

Yeah, on the other hand (playing devil's advocate), maybe she did not think about it - I always assumed all countries who practiced it changed together until my parents tried calling once from the UK and panicked as I was not there when I usually was! UK and USA change different dates. Now I just check periodically!

When I lived in the UK with BS it probably would not have crossed my mind to let ex know this. I just count on FB friends in each country to remind me as they always post little memes lol

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Submitted by stuckinthebay on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 1:21pm

That could be true. And if it that was the case, a simpe "I'm sorry I completely forgot it was day lights savings". Instead he got "not my responsibility".

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Submitted by Shaman29 on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 6:09pm

Edited - I wiped out my response because I misread the post. I thought OP was in Germany and they were in the US.

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Submitted by Disneyfan on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 6:20pm

THIS

People complain with BMs treat dads like idiots who aren't capable of doing anything right or without mom's input. Then they complain when BMs refuse to spoon feed dads information that they can easily find out on their own.