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I stay in Pittsburgh, the time zone is EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). I purchased a ticket of a flight that departs at 8.20 AM from here on next Thursday. When I purchased this, there was a different time in Pittsburgh -- and few days before it 'sprang forward' by 1 hour -- the standard thing that happens for daylight savings times. My question is: does the time shown on my ticket take care of this change, and I don't need to recalculate the departure time, just show up according to the current time at Pittsburgh? My guess is 'yes', just want to double check from experienced travellers -- don't want to miss my flight.

Update after the travel: Yes, indeed it takes care of that. So, the travellers can be calculation-free :-)

Pagol
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Yes, flight departure times for normal passenger flights are always shown in official local time, which follows DST changes according to the local rules.

Greg Hewgill
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The time shown on the ticket is, as far as I know, always local time as it will apply when the flight departs. In particular, I wouldn't expect a ticket to be sold with a time quoted in EST for flight on a day on which daylight saving time was in force. The change in time of your ticket was probably for the airline's operational reasons and the start of daylight saving was almost certainly a coincidence.

However, in any case where you're uncertain about this, you should check with your airline, not ask random people on the internet to guess for you.

David Richerby
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