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On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 09:34 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> OK, I need to go read somewhere. Actually, that part you wrote is very |
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> clear, but isn't UTC time the same as Greenwich Mean Time? Maybe GMT |
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> isn't effected by DST? |
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Yeah... kinda. The name "GMT" is for the most part historical. |
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Nowadays it's more commonly called UTC. UTC is Universal Coordinated |
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Time. It is DST agnostic and doesn't change (thank your chosen deity). |
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> I normally think of California being 8 hours behind GMT. 3AM seems to |
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> be 7 hours behind UTC and not 8 hours. Since we got DST 3 weeks early |
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> maybe GMT didn't shift yet? Or maybe GMT never shifts? |
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Pacific Standard Time is UTC-8 and Pacific Daylight Time is UTC-7. UTC |
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(GMT if you will) doesn't change, ever. |
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> Leave it to the American government to create world wide problems. |
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> (Not the first time, obviously and unfortunately not the last.) |
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Can't blame the Americans alone for this one. There have been a few |
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countries who have changed DST rules in recent years, some even worse |
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than here in the U.S. |
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