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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