[LBo] Re: Introducing myself...

[Jeff Schallenberg]

UTC =3D "Universal Time Coordinated", a fancy name for Zulu Time or Greenwi=
ch
Mean Time.

I live in Montr=E9al, Eastern Time, which is GMT+5.

- Jeff

On 10/13/06, mike sullivan <albinoaardvark at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Karin Westerbeek wrote:
> > ******************************snip***********************************
> And a question, I just read about the planned chat Thursday October,
> > 19th. 2006 at 20:00 UTC, but what's UTC again? I'm not really
> > familiair with all the time-zoning stuff, the only thing I know for
> > sure is that I'm at CET (Central European Time).
> >
> > Ciao,
> >
> > Karin
> Hi Karen and the group.  I'm not quite sure of where/when CET  ( Central
> European Time ) is.  With the Ciao at the end I will guess Italy. In
> that case your time is  Either  UTC or an hour either way.  For example
> I'm in San Antonio, Tx and am CST or  Central Standard Time.  In my
> case  UTC or GMT  or if your from a military back ground is  +5 hours
> for me.  Right now its 2:30 in the after noon or  7:30 pm UTC.  UTC or
> Universal Coordinated Time,  sorry I'm not even going to try the
> /correct/ French spelling. When world travel became more common in the
> 1800's better time keeping was needed. Short answer is that Greenwich
> England became the point on the globe where the Prime Meredian was
> located. Longitude and thus time are referenced from that point. Where
> this comes into play and makes things easier is if your using UTC and
> both parties are aware of it there usually isn't any confussion of when
> an event happens. I tend to end up clouding up things more with my
> answers but I hope that came out clear.
>
> Mike who is BTW ex military, a military brat and a ham radio operator
> for 40 years. UTC should be 2nd nature to me by now. But I tend to get
> bit on the butt by it on occassion.
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