About six months ago, the time change was easy: the US and the EU went back to standard time, while Uruguay simultaneously started using summer time. The net effect was that we became two hours farther from the US, and two hours closer to the EU.
At two o’clock tomorrow morning this process will begin to unravel, but only half way.
As of tomorrow, Uruguay will go off of summer time in the United States will go on daylight saving time; which means that we will become two hours closer to the US than we have been for the last 6 months (this is undoubtedly the most important result of the visit of King George II to Uruguay–without him, time might have stood still).
However, our time relative to the EU will only become more distant by one hour because the EU does not start its summer time for another few weeks on the last Sunday of this month.
As of tomorrow, this will mean that Uruguay will be only one hour later than Washington, DC time, and will be three hours earlier than London time.
Right now I care about these things, this is because I do business with people all over the world. When I finally retire to a campo to spend my time writing and causing trouble, I won’t care what time it is.
