Early this morning, Uruguay changed from Summer time (UYST) to standard time (UYT). Since it is fall here, we turned our clocks back 1 hour. At the same time we made that change, the US made its spring foward to daylight saving time. The total relative time shift was 2 hours, some Uruguay is now just 1 hour later than Eastern Time, instead of 3.
That was the straight forward part.
Our neighbor, Argentina, with whom we have so much interaction is still on Summer time for another week–this means that it is now 1 hour later in Buenos Aires than in Montevideo for the next 7 days. (We share the same time with our other neighbor Brazil, so there are no complications there.)
And then there is Europe.
We are now 1 hour farther away from Europe (3 hours earlier than UK time and 4 hours earlier than Central European Time (CET)), but only for 3 weeks. At that time, Europe will go off of summer time and there will be an additional hour between us.
Who said telling time was simple?
