I was not on the mailing list yet when I first saw this, but I could not find it in the archive, so here's some related news. Irish police believe that a “high-grade” bomb may have gone off prematurely
on a Dublin street Sunday night because a man forgot to change his clocks for Daylight Savings Time, according to U.K. reports. “It would appear that the bomber got his timings wrong,” a police source told the Mirror. “It could be a case where he didn’t put his watch forward on Sunday and the timer went off too soon.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/02/bomb-may-have-exploded-in-irish-susp... * Joachim JablonIngénieur Systèmes+33 (0)6 75 66 76 84+33 (0)1 84 17 31 20 Nouvelle adresseSMART IMPULSE48 rue René Clair 75018 PARISwww.smart-impulse.com <http://www.smart-impulse.com/>* 2014-06-05 9:49 GMT+02:00 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>:
Here's a sobering reminder of one of the downsides of daylight saving time. Last month the Australian Transport Safety Bureau published its investigation into a fatal accident on 2013-02-08 at 13:45 +1100, as the motor yacht Calliope transited the Glebe Island Bridge in Rozelle Bay, Sydney Harbour. When the ship's master calculated tidal conditions for the transit, he determined that low tide would be at 13:20 local time. However, he forgot to allow for daylight saving time, and the actual low tide was at 14:20. The miscalculation contributed to a botched transit; as the crew positioned a fender to control contact with the bridge structure, an assistant engineer was caught between the yacht's fashion plate and a bridge-mounted fender, was pulled overboard, and died.
Crane E. Crewman crushed to death in yacht crash after captain misjudged tide times when the clocks changed. Daily Mail, 2014-05-12. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2626707/Crewman- crushed-death-yacht-crash-Daylight-saving-error-lead- misjudged-tidal-times-Sydney-Harbour.html
Australian Transport Safety Bureau. Fatality on board the motor yacht Calliope. Marine Occurrence Investigation 297-MO-2013-003, 2014-05-12. http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_ reports/2013/mair/297-mo-2013-003.aspx