Travel and show day
Local time
Also called Wall-clock time
Local time is the clock time where something happens. On a day sheet every time is local to its place: departure where it leaves, arrival where it lands, the set at the venue.
Tickets, hotel confirmations and club timetables all use local time. If the day sheet uses local time too, every line can be checked against the ticket or confirmation it came from. Once times are converted, that check stops working.
Example
In October, a flight leaves Vienna at 10:05 CEST (UTC+2) and lands in Lisbon at 12:45 WEST (UTC+1). The clocks say 2h40; the flight takes 3h40. On the way back, 13:30 in Lisbon to 17:50 in Vienna looks like 4h20 and takes 3h20. For a show in Lisbon, write the departure as 10:05 CEST and the landing as 12:45, and both match the ticket and the arrivals board.
What to watch for
- State the venue’s timezone once, at the top. Give every time somewhere else its abbreviation.
- Daylight saving: the EU and the UK change on the last Sunday of March and of October, at 01:00 UTC. Elsewhere the dates differ: the US changes on other weekends, and Turkey stays on UTC+3 all year.
- Calendar apps convert into the phone’s zone. A set at 01:00 in London shows as 02:00 on a phone that is still in Vienna.
- Write 00:00 with the day, never “midnight” or “12 am”.
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