On 07/22/2013 01:48 PM, authfriend wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: >> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <authfriend@> wrote: >>> The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to the future >>> King of England. His name will be announced soon. >> The baby was born at 4:24 pm London time (11:24 am Eastern >> Daylight time), weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces. > Or it may have been 12:24 pm Eastern Daylight time--I'm > getting different times from different Web time-zone > converters. All the news reports say "4:24 pm local time," > FWIW, which should be BST, British Summer Time.
You want the BST since the UK is GMT but goes BST for summer. It's one hour ahead of UTC which is what is used for planetary calculations and the same year round. Time zones are the bane of astrologers. In the Internet age we could do away with them altogether and just use UTC. It would make things much easier when communicating with people in other parts of the world.
