Web Kracked wrote:
> Brian Barker wrote:
>> At 21:42 06/05/2009 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
>>> Let me see, 11am Hamburg Germany is the time of the official
>>> release.  What is that USA Eastern time?  7am on Friday?
>>
>> Ho, ho!  Pardon my chuckling, but why do people find time zones so
>> confusing?
>>
>> Central European Summer Time is two hours ahead of UTC and (US)
>> Eastern Daylight Time is four hours behind UTC - so six hours behind
>> Hamburg clock time (er, not twenty hours ahead).  So 11 a.m. on
>> Thursday in Hamburg is 5 a.m. on *Thursday* in New York, Washington,
>> Detroit, Miami, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Montreal, Ottawa,
>> Toronto, etc.
>>
>> I trust this helps.
>>
>> Brian Barker
>>
>>
> who knows what time zone a place is, unless you have a timezone map.
>

Time zone info is readily available on the web and you can easily
guesstimate with a globe.  One hour = 15 degrees, though actual
boundaries vary.



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