It gets even worse in Australia.  For some reason all of the states except
Queensland (which I live in) are on daylight saving.  Try to ring Melbourne
in the afternoon, damn, one hour too late!!!

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Lance.


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Ron Parker wrote in message <363dc898.0@news.povray.org>...
>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.
>
>For the sake of everyone involved, I'll suppress my standard
>rant about how much productivity this 18th-century practice
>costs us twice a year as people miss appointments and deadlines
>because they forgot to reset one of the approximately twelve
>billion clocks in the average American house.
>

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