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. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
