[LBo] Re: Introducing myself...

[Karin Westerbeek]

Hey Mike,

I know GMT, I just didn't know it was (appart from the summer/winter
time thingie) the same as UTC...
And I'm not from Italy, I'm from the Netherlands. It's just that
"Groetjes" not really works internationally, and "Ciao" just sounds
better than "Cheers" or "Regards" IMHO.

Ciao,

Karin

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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