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| 123998 | 2003-02-26 04:56:00 | "This site is currently undergoing extended maintenance activities between the hours of 2:00 AM - 8:00 AM GMT." What time is above 8am to our NZ time? I dont understand GMT time or how it works. Thank youuu :) |
Ritzz (731) | ||
| 123999 | 2003-02-26 05:04:00 | GMT is standard world time at Greenwich, London. So it is English standard time. England is 12 hours behind us, but we are on daylight saving time so we are really 1 hour earlier than NZ std time, so this puts us 11 hrs ahead of them (so 8 am gmt should be 7 pm here). I could be wrong here as daylight saving confuses me completely as to whether we are ahead or behind, but I'm pretty sure this is right. To confuse matters further, when we go back to normal time, the english go into daylight saving, so the difference is always either 11 or 13 hours. | andy (473) | ||
| 124000 | 2003-02-26 05:39:00 | Good explanation Andy. I agree it is confusing, especially with daylight saving here & in other countries. I think it works the oppositie way from what you explained. With DL time here, we put our clocks forward, and so we are now 13 hours ahead of GMT. Right now it is 6.30pm here and 5.30am in UK. As you say, depending on the DL times here or in the UK, it will be either 12, 11, or 13 hours difference. Confusing. A good site to see world times is: http://www.timeanddate.com/ |
Bazza (407) | ||
| 124001 | 2003-02-26 07:27:00 | Thankx baja and Andy... So i make it that i have to wait till 9pm (NZ time) to access the Cisco site. Cheerss :) |
Ritzz (731) | ||
| 124002 | 2003-02-26 07:54:00 | Yeah Bazza, that makes sense. I said it confused me!! When we lived in England during our big OE I used to piss my dad off cos I'd ring up at 7 pm and it'd be 5 am back here. Mind you , it pissed off someone else worse one time when I got a wrong number!! DOH!! | andy (473) | ||
| 124003 | 2003-02-26 08:03:00 | Yes Ritzz, that is correct at the moment (13hrs time difference) . It will change (12hrs) as we stop DL time in March, Confusing? That is compared to GMT, also known as UTC . GMT does not change . However UK time does, & a bit later in March the UK will go to DL time, and then the time diff between us & the UK will be 11 hours . Even more confusing? Anyway, you have got it sorted for now . Cheers . . |
Bazza (407) | ||
| 124004 | 2003-02-27 01:54:00 | Of course, UTC is the international standard . :D GMT is "obsolete" . In fact the Greenwich observatory was shut down many years ago . There was a lot of argument about the reference meridian: it could have been Greenwich, Paris, Berlin, Washington . The 0 degree of longitude goes through Greenwich; we are about 180 degrees east of there . We are earlier than England because we see the sun sooner . The difference is one hour per 15 degree of longitude because the earth takes 24 hours to rotate 360 degrees, so NZ standard time is 12 hours ahead of British standard time . Various summer times confuse the matter . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 124005 | 2003-02-28 19:46:00 | > GMT is standard world time at Greenwich, London . So > it is English standard time . England is 12 hours > behind us, but we are on daylight saving time so we > are really 1 hour earlier than NZ std time, so this > puts us 11 hrs ahead of them (so 8 am gmt should be 7 > pm here) . Close but not quite - us being on Daylight Savings adds an hour, so that'd make us 13 hours ahead of England at the moment, not 11 :) We'll be 11 hours ahead when we're back to NZ Standard time, and England are on Daylight Saving . Mike . |
Mike (15) | ||
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