--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > 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
That's what I figured, but I got two different times depending on the site. All the sites I tried noted that both locations, NYC and London, were on Daylight Saving/ Summer time, so they were presumably taking that into account; but one of the sites (the first one I used) gave me 11:24 am EDT for the time of birth in NYC, the others gave me 12:24 pm EDT. How could it be 12:24 if the cities are five hours apart, both times are Daylight Saving/Summer time, and the kid was born at 4:24 local time? Never mind! The baby's born, he and the mother are in good shape, and I'm not concerned about his horoscope. 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. >
