Doug, KA8QCY asked:

Hi all, Would this have been the date for the old time change back standard time in the U.S.? Seems like my sat passe are off by a bunch using Instant Track.

I presume that by "old time" you mean to ask "When does Daylight Savings Time revert to Standard time?" To understand the way you change the clock, the old adage says "Spring Ahead, Fall Back"

Here are two references on the subject: The US Naval Observatory (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.php http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.ph) or The California State Energy Commission (http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html)

Both sources give the epoch as 02:00 EDT/CDT/MDT/PDT on Sunday, Nov.2, at which time you set your clock back to 01:00 EST/CST/MST/PST (except in Indiana and Arizona). Here on the East Coast, my offest between UTC and local times changes from 4 to 5 hours.

In Europe, the EU (http://www.worldtimezone.com/daylight.html) makes the change one week earlier, on Oct.26. So if you are flying to/from Europe in the next couple of weeks, you can expect airline timetables to be screwed up.

In the Southern hemisphere the pattern is swapped as the sun moves south of the equator. See the worldtime http://www.worldtimezone.com/daylight.html web site for details.

73, Tom