Which time zone are you in?

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21 Mar 2008, 12:21 am

GMT +10

Tasmanian Standard Time! :lol:

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21 Mar 2008, 9:03 am

Time keeps flowing like a river...to the sea topic

GMT-5 (or -4 because of DST):cheers: :jester: :alien: :mrgreen: :albino: :sunny: :eye: :cyclopsani: :flower: :farao: :jocolor: :joker: :queen: :king: :rendeer: :santa: :geek: :thumleft: :thumright: :smurfin: :smurf: :brilsmurf: :bigsmurf: :study: :colors: :compress: :shaking2: :heart: :star: :clown: :viking: :hockey: :dj: :nemo: :chin: :money: :hail: :wtg: :doh:

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21 Mar 2008, 1:27 pm

GMT +1

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21 Mar 2008, 2:07 pm

GMT

hitormist
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21 Mar 2008, 3:21 pm

You do realise for us Brits on here this will soon be out of date, as we change from GMT to BST (British Summer Time) at 2am on Sunday next week (30th). So Britain (and Greenwich will be then GMT+1.

Incidentally, whilst talking about time and time zones, there is a clock at Bristol Railway station which is set deliberately 5 minutes after GMT (or BST when applicable). This is a tradition and is in homage to the fact that it was the railways, and more so Brunel's track between London and Bristol that changed the way we standardise time.

Up until the railways most cities had their own time zones, based more upon the sun rises and sets throughout the year, thus Bristol was 5 minutes behind the time London, as it took the Earth 5 minutes to revolve that distance. As travel was slow (horses etc.) between places this did not matter. However due to the relative pace of the trains this turned to more than a considerable percentage of the time, and the concept of individual, localised time was made redundant.

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21 Mar 2008, 7:36 pm

GMT +2

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21 Mar 2008, 8:14 pm

Greentea wrote:

I'm at +2 GMT.

Or Greentea Mean Time :wink:

I'm on Greenwich Mean Time which applies
in the UK obviously,although there was
some debate in Scotland about whether we
should change to a different time zone to
avoid it being too dark at certain times.

Personally I think any change wouldn't be
worth it due to the chaos it would cause by
disruption to well-established business hours and timetables.

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21 Mar 2008, 9:15 pm

hitormist wrote:

Incidentally, whilst talking about time and time zones, there is a clock at Bristol Railway station which is set deliberately 5 minutes after GMT (or BST when applicable). This is a tradition and is in homage to the fact that it was the railways, and more so Brunel's track between London and Bristol that changed the way we standardise time.

Up until the railways most cities had their own time zones, based more upon the sun rises and sets throughout the year, thus Bristol was 5 minutes behind the time London, as it took the Earth 5 minutes to revolve that distance. As travel was slow (horses etc.) between places this did not matter. However due to the relative pace of the trains this turned to more than a considerable percentage of the time, and the concept of individual, localised time was made redundant.

That's pretty cool.

Why has time gotten to complicated these days?
Why do we need things like day light savings and similar policies??

Anyway, I'm in -5 GMT

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22 Mar 2008, 12:00 pm

To me, it's comforting to know that there are people round the clock on WP ! !! !!

And sartreuse, adorable icons...

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22 Mar 2008, 3:10 pm

Gmt -7 according to what I just looked this isn't synchronized on my computer with wrong planet yet. Anyway its actually Pacific Standard Time as I think of it.

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22 Mar 2008, 3:17 pm

GMT+1 at the moment (+2 in a week's time when it changes to European summer time - yay)

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