To further clarify deadlines for entry into the IRTC:

Stills are 11:59:59 GMT minus 7 hours, last day of second month, for the 
March/April through July/August topics.

Animations are 11:59:59 GMT minus 7 hours, 15th day of the last month, for 
January to April, April to July, and July to October topic rounds.

Stills are 11:59:59 GMT minus 8 hours, last day of second month, for the 
September/October through January/February topics.

Animations 11:59:59 GMT minus 8 hours, 15th day of the last month, for only 
the October to January topic round.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

(Note: GMT is Greenwich Meridian Time also known as Universal Time or UT)

Examples (possible errors due to outdated/misinterpreted information):

GMT - 12:00 Kwajelein Atoll, Marshall Islands
GMT - 11:00 Midway Islands, (US?)
GMT - 10:00 Hawaii, USA
GMT - 9:00  Alaska, USA
GMT - 8:00  Pacific Time (US and Canada)
GMT - 7:00  Mountain Time (US and Canada)
GMT - 6:00  Mexico City, Mexico
GMT - 5:00  Eastern Time (US and Canada)
GMT - 5:00  Indiana (East), USA
GMT - 4:00  Caracas, Venezuela (-4:30?)
GMT - 3:45  Georgetown, British Guiana
GMT - 3:30  Island of Newfoundland, Newfoundland
GMT - 3:00  Brasilia, Brazil
GMT - 2:00  Tel Aviv, Israel
GMT - 1:00  Sao Tiago, Cape Verde Islands
GMT - 0:00  London, England
GMT + 1:00  Paris, France
GMT + 2:00  Eastern Europe
GMT + 3:00  Moscow, Russia
GMT + 3:30  Tehran, Iran
GMT + 4:30  Kabul, Afghanistan
GMT + 4:00  Masqat, Muscat(?)
GMT + 5:00  Karachi, Pakistan
GMT + 5:30  New Delhi, India
GMT + 6:00  Dahka (Dacca?), Pakistan East(?)
GMT + 7:00  Hanoi,Vietnam
GMT + 8:00  Hong Kong, China
GMT + 9:00  Tokyo, Japan
GMT + 9:30  Darwin, Australia
GMT + 10:00 Sydney, Australia
GMT + 11:00 Solomon Islands, Melanesia
GMT + 12:00 Wellington, New Zealand

Message <363dc898.0@news.povray.org>, Ron Parker typed...
>
>On Mon, 02 Nov 1998 14:50:59 +0100, Marc Schimmler 
>        <sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote:
>>Estelle Gargatte wrote:
>>
>>> Pacific Time is. Could you please give the equivalent in GMT ?
>>
>>It is GMT - 7. That means if you live in GMT+1 and your clock shows
>>13.00 pm it is 5 am in PDT time zone (I just learned this too!).
>
>Those places in the US where Daylight Savings Time is observed
>stop observing it ("fall back") on the last Sunday in October.  
>This means that "Pacific Time" currently means "Pacific 
>Standard Time", which is GMT-8.  This will continue to be true 
>until the first Sunday in April, when the barbarians will once 
>more begin observing Daylight Savings Time and will "spring 
>forward" to GMT-7.  

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=Bob

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