Anybody really know what time it is?
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bilbo99 Emu
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06-07-2007 02:48
From: Irene LeShelle But the UK is not on GMT at this time of year.
The UK is on daylight saving time which puts them one hour ahead of GMT.
(GMT never changes but the local UK time changes with daylight saving time)
According to the LL Blog, SL was back up at 8:45 PDT.
If that is true, SL was back up at 15:45 GMT and 16:45 local UK time, which means SL was actually up again just before the planned service window ended ..... <pedant> Officially called British Summer Time, although labelled Daylight Saving Time on the Sony clock radio in front of me LOL </pedant> I wonder ... do we catch Central Europe up when we do that? I know when I got a Frankfurt radio controlled clock it didn't adjust till a couple of weeks after us one year. Another embellishement, a story my mum told me: During WWII the British govt introduced a Double Summer Time, an extra hour forward, apparently for the comfort of the factory workers among others.
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06-07-2007 03:26
Maybe one day we will use "Internet Time". Maybe we should be using Internet Time. Maybe we should have started with Internet Time. Or even UTC for that matter. http://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html
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06-07-2007 03:28
From: bilbo99 Emu I wonder ... do we catch Central Europe up when we do that? I know when I got a Frankfurt radio controlled clock it didn't adjust till a couple of weeks after us one year. We may catch up briefly because daylight savings implementations aren't synchronized around the world. For about a week last October, I recall Second Life time suddenly being seven hours behind UK time instead of eight because we turned our clocks back a week or so before they did. Anyway, back to CET. The majority of European countries in that timezone only use it during the winter. Around the time we switch to BST (GMT+1) they switch to CEST (Central European Summer Time which is GMT+2). |
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bilbo99 Emu
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06-07-2007 03:43
From: Kornscope Komachi Maybe one day we will use "Internet Time".
Maybe we should be using Internet Time.
Maybe we should have started with Internet Time.
Or even UTC for that matter. Mebbe we should all adhere to SLT ... specially if it's going to become WWW2 ... 
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06-07-2007 13:31
From: bilbo99 Emu <pedant>
Officially called British Summer Time, although labelled Daylight Saving Time on the Sony clock radio in front of me LOL
</pedant> <pedant  > Yes, the official name of the time zone the UK is in now is BST, but I was not trying to name the time zone but rather refer to the generic term which is normally used for the phenomena - daylight saving time </pedant > From: someone
I wonder ... do we catch Central Europe up when we do that? I know when I got a Frankfurt radio controlled clock it didn't adjust till a couple of weeks after us one year.
I believe Europe (and this includes the UK) is now syncronized in when to switch to/from daylight saving time. The switch to dst occurs at 0200 on the last Sunday in March and from dst at 0300 on the last Sunday in October. But the times mentioned above are local times, so for a brief period of one hour, Central Europe will be two hours ahead of UK in March and on the same time as the UK for an hour in October. No, keeping track of time is not easy What you observed on your clock was probably because of failure to receive the signal from Frankfurt which can happen or it may have occured so many years ago that the UK and the rest of Europe did not switch at the same time ... |
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Colette Meiji
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06-07-2007 13:34
does anyone really care ... about Time?
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Ciaran Laval
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06-07-2007 13:37
All times are GMT. The time now is 08:37 PM.
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DaQbet Kish
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06-07-2007 13:44
From: Colette Meiji does anyone really care ... about Time? It took to page 3 for that. : ) DK |
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Colette Meiji
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06-07-2007 13:45
From: DaQbet Kish It took to page 3 for that.
: )
DK who was it by? I cant find it on google. |
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06-07-2007 14:11
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