[time-nuts] GMT vs. UTC

JayHolovacs jayh6 at verizon.net
Wed Nov 22 02:01:41 UTC 2006


James Maynard wrote:

>Magnus Danielson wrote:
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>>I would feel more comfortable if I knew that the official time (and those the
>>legal time) would be some 1h multiple of UTC and that this 1h multiple is
>>precisely defined for normal and summer time. 
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>It all depends on your local time zone.  Not all time zones are offset 
>from UTC by integral multiples of 1 h.
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>Chatham Islands time = UTC + 12 h 45 min (when on standard time)
>Chatham Islands time = UTC + 13 h 45 m (when on summer time)
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I thought my 'world time' watch was cool because it took into account 
the x.5 h time zones. They apparently still missed something.  )


jay





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