On 3/12/07, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 09:34 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> OK, I need to go read somewhere. Actually, that part you wrote is very
> clear, but isn't UTC time the same as Greenwich Mean Time? Maybe GMT
> isn't effected by DST?
Yeah... kinda. The name "GMT" is for the most part historical.
Nowadays it's more commonly called UTC. UTC is Universal Coordinated
Time. It is DST agnostic and doesn't change (thank your chosen deity).
>
> I normally think of California being 8 hours behind GMT. 3AM seems to
> be 7 hours behind UTC and not 8 hours. Since we got DST 3 weeks early
> maybe GMT didn't shift yet? Or maybe GMT never shifts?
Pacific Standard Time is UTC-8 and Pacific Daylight Time is UTC-7. UTC
(GMT if you will) doesn't change, ever.
Got it. Makes sense. Thanks!
> Leave it to the American government to create world wide problems.
> (Not the first time, obviously and unfortunately not the last.)
>
Can't blame the Americans alone for this one. There have been a few
countries who have changed DST rules in recent years, some even worse
than here in the U.S.
Cheers,
Mark
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