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On 3/12/07, Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o> wrote: |
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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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Got it. Makes sense. Thanks! |
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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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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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