Tony,
Untrue. As someone sitting at my computer in England I can assure you
that today we are using GMT. GMT is 'zulu' time in military parlance
and is the same time as UTC. Tomorrow we will have changed to BST
(British Summer Time) which is one hour ahead of GMT and again using
military parlance is 'alpha' time.
It's not actually that complicated but I recall from my days with the
army that there were highly entertaining instances of guys rolling up 2
hours early for conferences....
73 Bob G3ORY
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Date: 28/03/2015 15:56
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Subj: [TenTec] Toney you have explained a solution for my XYL's
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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:34:20 -0400
From: "Tony Lelieveld"<va3dwi@gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"<tentec@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Fwd: Re: hz / KC Correction
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Larry,
I recently learned that, whether true or not, GMT is actually a "time
zone"
which changes with daylight savings time, where as UTC (commonly
called Z
time as well) never changes. The only thing that does change is, if
the
time zone you live in changes from "Standard Time" to "Daylight
Savings
Time" WE get an hour closer to UTC.
As a result, net times reported in "local time". I.E. 14:00 hr local
(in
EST) is 19:00 UTC , 14:00 hr (in DST) becomes 18:00 hr UTC. That's
why it
is recommended for all Hams to use UTC time and you are always ON
TIME. I
run several nets and I always give the time in local and UTC so that
hams
who live in different time zones, his/her UTC is the same as my UTC.
Phew,
complicated is it not?
73, Tony VE3DWI.
Every year when we change to DST she complains the flowers on the east
side of the house do not look as nice as those on the west side. Now I
tell her since I'm on one of the nets and you use UTC she will see no
droopy flowers on the east side of the house.
TNX ... es ... 73 ... de ... WA0BAG . .
;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Belcher"<k4cl@charter.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"<tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Fwd: Re: hz / KC Correction
I'm still trying to deal with UTC from GMT. Maybe that is why they
call
us "old timers".
Larry, K4CL
--
Paul K. WA0BAG
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