Hell, I had heard that SoCal people were laid-back, but that's ridiculous! ;-)
I can never remember this conversion either, but I found that for all things GMT, you can check out:
Yes Virginia, somewhere there is a web site for EVERYTHING.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sterngold [mailto:psterngold@No-Spam]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:38 AM
To: The Astronomy Connection
Subject: RE: [TAC] Confused about S&T's UT
OH yeah, it's spring not fall ain't it? No wonder my boss is po'd at me.
Duh.
Paul
--- Peter Santangeli <psantangeli@No-Spam> wrote:
>
> Uhmm.... if you moved your clock back, then you are arriving at all you
> meetings two hours late...
>
> Spring Forward
> Fall Back.
>
> You are indeed trippin.
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Sterngold [mailto:psterngold@No-Spam]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 8:24 AM
> To: TAC; tac-south
> Subject: [TAC] Confused about S&T's UT
>
> 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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