Daylight savings time

[Ryancoke]

When the disembarkation port is on daylight time and the embarkation port is on standard which one does the ship use?

[PeterSt]

Why do you feel that the ship would not be on whatever the local time is?

[bepsf]

Neither.

The ship will use whatever time it's passing through - the clocks will be changed accordingly to whatever port it's entering the following day.

[Ryancoke]

Clarifying: I can understand local times zones but how do they decide whether to use DST or ST when in the middle of the Atlantic and Britain is on ST and US is on DST?

[PeterSt]

The ship's time zone at sea probably depends on the exact circumstances. However, in my experience the Captain tries to adjust the clocks so that they only change by one hour at a time (i.e. an hour a day) and, if possible, the ship is on the time used by the destination port (or the next port of call for a cruise) at least one day before arriving there.

 

I suspect that for navigation purposes ships use GMT/UTC.

[William Dean]

Clarifying: I can understand local times zones but how do they decide whether to use DST or ST when in the middle of the Atlantic and Britain is on ST and US is on DST?

 

They gradually alter the time so that they leave on local time and arrive on local time. It will be done in steps of whole hours on a number of nights. If the time difference is five hours, then the clocks will alter five times. If four hours, four times.

 

WD.

[DrivesLikeMario]

OP - You'll usually be notified two ways:

1. by a little printed note left on your pillow by the cabin steward (Princess does this, I'm assuming Cunard does too) and

2. in the daily ship's "newspaper"

[William Dean]

OP - You'll usually be notified two ways:

1. by a little printed note left on your pillow by the cabin steward (Princess does this, I'm assuming Cunard does too) and

2. in the daily ship's "newspaper"

 

Cunard used to have lovely little cards that were left on the pillow. Gone.

 

Now you get a rubbishy announcement left on the television when turndown is done.

 

Waiters often remind you too.

 

And of course there is an announcement in the Daily Programme.

 

WD