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Excellent! Bravo. :-)
"BllFs6" wrote in message ... Funny Story.... In High School/Early college....I actually used to keep my watch set to UT time! (early 80s, and in those days my watch was NOT multimode....I was lucky that it was LCD! ).....because I got tired of dealing with constantly figuring if it was "daylight savings time" (and if you added or subtracted for it..etc etc) or not...or if I was in the eastern or central time zone (i live near the "border")..... And once in great while some stranger would ask me for the time....And I'd have to stand there and convert from 24 hr military time format outloud to 12 hr civilian format...then mumble something about time zones....then mumble something about daylight savings time...then wonder outloud if I got something backwards (bordline dyslexic here).....so after all this I would end up telling the person something like this....well, its 42 minutes past the hour, and I think its 9 am, but I could be off an hour or 2 either way..... take care Blll |
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Mick wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:12:09 GMT, Sam Wormley wrote: Mick wrote: Anyone with any kind of sense would know what UT really means. Hi Mick--Did you know the difference between UT1 (UT) and UTC is currently 64.636 s ? -Sam Wormley http://edu-observatory.org/gps/time.html You are one looney MOFO. Here Mick, this is easier http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html |
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"Mike Fitterman" wrote in message
news:Hv1Tc.5942$4E1.1091@trndny07... "Paul Lawler" wrote in message link.net... "Mike Fitterman" wrote in message news:a50Tc.8030$K82.1556@trndny01... "AstronomyWanaB" wrote in message news I sure wish most here would report in UT various events observed. Local time has no meaning if your 1000's of kms away. DO IT IN UT WILL YA??! This really is a must. For folks that live in the US "CST" can mean more than one thing. It can be confusing as hell for people who live outside the US to figure out what our timezones map to. Ummm... okay, I'll bite. What does CST mean besides Central Standard Time? http://www.timeanddate.com/library/a...ons/timezones/ Thanks for the link... but it doesn't explain how for folks that live in the US "CST" can mean more than one thing. It still appears to mean Central Standard Time. |
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Thanks for the link... but it doesn't explain how for folks that live in the US "CST" can mean more than one thing. It still appears to mean Central Standard Time. It frequently gets used when people mean Central Daylight Time ( CDT ). Dark skies, tom -- We have discovered a therapy ( NOT a cure ) for the common cold. Play tuba for an hour. |
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Mick wrote: On 13 Aug 2004 09:04:32 -0600, (David B. Thomas) wrote: I managed to read quite a bit of this thread before I realized that UT meant "Universal Time". I thought the original poster wanted Utah time!! blush David Anyone with any kind of sense would know what UT really means. Well, not really. You need the C as in UTC to really define it. |
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Sam Wormley wrote: Mick wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 16:12:09 GMT, Sam Wormley wrote: Mick wrote: Anyone with any kind of sense would know what UT really means. Hi Mick--Did you know the difference between UT1 (UT) and UTC is currently 64.636 s ? -Sam Wormley http://edu-observatory.org/gps/time.html You are one looney MOFO. Here Mick, this is easier http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html Nifty, Sam! But it came back in PDT (which is what I use in my laptop -- UTC being a bit confusing on file date/time in my consulting environment). Phil |
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Phil Wheeler wrote:
Well, not really. You need the C as in UTC to really define it. They're two different things--but not different enough in most applications. You'd want to make the distinction in any case where you care about getting your location very precisely. But if you're just talking about when you saw such and such a DSO, then I should think it wouldn't matter. Brian Tung The Astronomy Corner at http://astro.isi.edu/ Unofficial C5+ Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/c5plus/ The PleiadAtlas Home Page at http://astro.isi.edu/pleiadatlas/ My Own Personal FAQ (SAA) at http://astro.isi.edu/reference/faq.txt |
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"Tom Kirke" wrote in message
... Thanks for the link... but it doesn't explain how for folks that live in the US "CST" can mean more than one thing. It still appears to mean Central Standard Time. It frequently gets used when people mean Central Daylight Time ( CDT ). Just because some people use the term erroneously (even if they do it frequently) doesn't change its meaning. g |
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Brian Tung wrote: Phil Wheeler wrote: Well, not really. You need the C as in UTC to really define it. They're two different things--but not different enough in most applications. You'd want to make the distinction in any case where you care about getting your location very precisely. But if you're just talking about when you saw such and such a DSO, then I should think it wouldn't matter. Of course I agree, Brian. But if someone is so picky as to ask for UTC, they should spell it with no ambiguity (at least in deference to those who are actually in UTah!) Phil |
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Mike Fitterman wrote:
This really is a must. For folks that live in the US "CST" can mean more than one thing. It can be confusing as hell for people who live outside the US to figure out what our timezones map to. Mike. I subscribe to that. I live in Norway and I don't know what CST represents, and most people I know don't know that either. One really cannot expect all other people to look up all other time zone designations around the world (at least not if you expect them to get it right). I use UT all the time, and also avoid the troublesome summertime ("daylight saving time") issues. Please report in UT. Clear skies Carsten A. Arnholm http://arnholm.org/ N59.776 E10.457 |
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