Confused about S&T's UT

From: Paul Sterngold (psterngold@No-Spam)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 08:23:33 MST

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    Fellow TACos,

    I thought I understood UT very well indeed, until I read how to determine
    local time from UT in April's S&T. They say that to calculate PST from
    UT, subtract eight hours. Okay, I'm good with that. But then they say
    that when we're in DST, to subtract one hour -less- than this, in other
    words, subtract seven hours instead of eight.

    When we changed to DST this past weekend, we moved our clocks back.
    Doesn't this mean that we would subtract one hour -more- to determine
    local time from UT, in other words, subtract nine hours instead of eight?

    Example: to determine PST for 18:00 UT, subtract eight hours = 10:00 PST.
    Last weekend, we moved our clocks -back- an hour for PDT, so for the same
    UT of 18:00, our clocks now read 09:00 PDT. Therefore, to determine local
    time PDT, we need to subtract nine hours, not seven.

    Am I trippin?

    Cheers,
    Paul Sterngold

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