scheduling, or the timezone dance

[Karsten Wade]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 20:53 +0100, Stuart Ellis wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:29:02 -0700, "Karsten Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> said:
> > Apparently, those of us in the States have software that doesn't
> > calculate British Summer Time correctly.  Or does it?
> > 
> > From rom what I got out of yesterday's conversation, I am in fact -8
> > UTC/GMT, and not -7 UTC/GMT as rktime shows me[1].  
> > 
> 
> UTC/GMT is a constant reference for all timezones, but UK time at UTC +
> 1 hour for the "British Summer Time" period of the year, despite the
> fact that the Greenwich meridian is in Britain.

So, the original time chart _was_ correct?

2000 GMT / 2100 BST / 1600 EDT / 1500 CDT / 1300 PDT. 

- Karsten
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