[Hidden-tech] GMT time zone calculations

Bruce Hooke bghooke at att.net
Tue Dec 6 20:17:52 EST 2016


If you plug into Google a phrase like "current time in Beijing" you'll get
back something like "9:06AM Wednesday, December 7, 2016." I find this very
useful for planning meetings with people on the other side of the world.
>From that result it's easy for me to see that to get the time in Beijing I
add 13 hours to EST. 

Unless you like getting going pretty early or they're OK staying up late
you're probably going to end up with a meeting at something like 8pm here
and 9am there. 

Bruce 

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Gwynn
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 6:05 PM
To: Marcia Yudkin
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Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] GMT time zone calculations

GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the timezone of Greenwich, England. It’s also
known as UTC (which stands for “Coordinated Universal Time” in English and
“Temps Universel Coordonné” in French
 yeah
). In a lot of ways, it’s the
“middle” of the world’s timezones.

We are currently EST (Eastern Standard Time), which is GMT-5 (which you can
pronounce as “GMT minus five”).

During the warmer months, we are EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), which is
GMT-4.

GMT+8 is 13 hours ahead of us (we’re 5 hours behind GMT, and they’re
8 hours ahead of it, so 13). So they’ll be in “tomorrow” after 11am EST
(24:00 - 13:00 = 11:00), or 4pm GMT (24:00 - 8:00 = 16:00).

You can see a map of the world’s timezones at
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/. Things might make a little more sense
after you stare at that for a while. But if you stare at it too long, it
might start making less sense again!

Hope this helps!

Eli

On 6 Dec 2016, at 16:53, Marcia Yudkin wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been asked to suggest a time for a meeting with folks who are in 
> time zone GMT +8.  I think they are in China, Taiwan or Singapore, but 
> I'm not sure.
>
> This GMT system confuses me.  What GMT time zone are we in, in the 
> Northeast?
>
> How do I express a certain time in GMT terms, as opposed to Eastern 
> time?
>
> And then there's the international date line to consider as well!  If 
> they are in Asia, then they are a day "ahead" of us, correct?
>
> Help!
>
> Marcia Yudkin
> Goshen
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