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Special Events Forums => Special Events General => Topic started by: devildawg on October 17, 2000, 06:42:00 PM
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Camo just a quick question for ya. I used this time converter to get the times of the games http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc (http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc) does not jive with whats being posted here. According to the time converter, Tuesday October 17: 03:00 GMT converts to 22:00:00 Mon Oct 16 2000 in EST.
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Retreat hell!! We're just attacking in another direction!
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Let me once again outline the problem:
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is an absolute measure of time on the Earth. For all I know, it's regulated along with all other mneasures by a bunch of guys with diplomatic status out in Saclay, a suburb of Paris. All other times on this planet are in relation to GMT.
There's this thing called Daylight Savings Time, a confusing mess really, made all the worse by the fact that different countries implement it differently.
Because of this, GMT is not always equivalent to UK time.
Worse, if you have DST enabled, the time on your computer is not always equivalent to the "GMT+X" that your time zone box reads.
Even worse is the annoying tendency of people to use EST,CST,MST and PST to mean "Eastern Time" "Central Time" and so on. The S stands for Standard, as opposed to Daylight. If you look at the bottom of this page, you'll see "All times are CT", not "CST" nor "CDT".
The difference is very important: Central Time, for example, without the S or D, does not indicate a fixed relationship with GMT; CST and CDT, on the other hand, do.
In the matter at hand:
0300 GMT = 2200 EST (GMT-5) = 2300 EDT (GMT-4).
on October 29, 2000 at some gawd-awful hour of the morning, the entire US (and most of Europe for that matter) will pass from DST to Standard time. Until then, when someone refers to EST, 9 times out of 10, EDT is intended.
Dinger
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SOrry for the confusion, but I'm just as confused. (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)
I've now changed GMT to "UK time".
"East coast time" is "UK time" -4 hours.
"Central time" is "UK time" -6 hours.
Right?
Camo
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[This message has been edited by LLv34_Camouflage (edited 10-17-2000).]
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Not too much use for cockpits clock right now...
Maybe HTC could change it to show 24h and so on... A Arena Time (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
I've seen timers in some web-pages; Maybe someone could made a list of events with time-counters?
I'm using Excel-charts for it but I'm too lazy to check what time it is (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
[This message has been edited by Staga (edited 10-17-2000).]
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Close: ET = Uk-5
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Thx Dinger! (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)