TIMEZONES gmt/cet

[Spetsnaz]

taken from albion forum:

Seems people have problems finding out what is what, when and why, so I will try to give a simple explanation. Please post if I am wrong, but do your research before you do.

GMT: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
This is a world standard and does never change, no summertime or whatever and is the same as UK time in the winter.

BST: http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/bst.html
This is British summertime and is the same as GMT+1

CET: http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/cet.html
This is Central European time and is ALLWAYS GMT+1

CEST: http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/cest.html
This is Central European SummerTime and is ALLWAYS GMT+2

Hopes this carify a few things and raidleaders remember to post the right times. Some still thinks that GMT is allways UKtime and some that CET is allways europetime. Make sure you post it right.

 

[Alan]

Fun aint it

People assume uk time is GMT but guess were just stuck with it now.

 

[Faldir]

Yes they are the formal deffinitions but in practice the majority of people just take GMT to mean UK time and CET to mean Central Europen time regardles of summer times. i.e. CET is always UK time + 1hr (even though formally it isn't)

 

[kiliarien]

Why not get more complicated

We could always go into geo-magnetic times and grid-related times but we might be going a bit far. Coriolis effect anyone?

And there's me thinking alb's couldn't cut and paste for webpages, just click 'stick' on the 457896 other peeps in the game. Shame on me

Though frankly if you're trying to be clever then spelling 'allways' correctly would be a good start.