Timelines

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 108015

Just a quick note to address something that may have already been 
mentioned, but if so, I haven't seen it. I have seen a number of 
posts using real world times for sunrise/sunset, etc to analyse 
timelines for events on the list recently.

All I have seen seem to be using 'Muggle time'. There's a potential 
problem with that.

Does the Wizarding World use Daylight Savings?

Muggle Britain does - but it's a fairly recent development. I think 
it's potentially problematic to assume that Wizarding Britain does 
as well.

This has implications for the current Grimmauld Place/Ministy of 
Magic timeline thread - because that's an event that occurred in 
summer. The times I've seen people using for sunrise/sunset etc are 
daylight savings times. If the Wizarding World doesn't use daylight 
savings, those times are off by an hour. 

It's just something for people to consider (including me - all the 
posts I've previously done on astronomy in Harry Potter have also 
used 'Muggle Time' and for one in particular, that is a potential 
problem).

So, does the Wizarding World use daylight savings?

[Actually equally valid questions could be asked if Hogwarts even 
uses time based on the same meridians as Muggle Britain - they 
could be on 'Hogsmeade Mean Time', which depending on where 
Hogwarts is would be offset from GMT by a period of minutes, and 
would be horribly confusing...]


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