scheduling, or the timezone dance

[Stuart Ellis]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:29:11 -0700, "Karsten Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
said:
> 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. 

I think so (I've looked at
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/ to check
up on the US timezones, which I was a bit hazy on).
--

Stuart Ellis