[NLRS] gmt question answered

[Dave Aho]

A few replies, and This one sums it up best:

Quote:
Dave,

First, the proper term for the universal time is now
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) (The French had some
input so the screwy abbreviations). This was put into
place when the official clocks in Greenwich, England
became very inaccurate due to age.

Now there are numerous time standard clocks around the
world. WWV is one of them in the US, the US Navy also
has their own. Canada has CHU.

UTC never changes, ie as in Daylight Saving Time.

However, in England, the time zone GMT is replaced by
BST, British Summer Time, which is +1 hr from UTC.
Likewise we go from CST to CDT, which goes from -6 hrs
UTC to -5 hrs UTC.

Hope this helps.

Bill
AC0W

Unquote.


Thanks Bill.  So in other words, UTC which we use does
not change with the season, but GMT or BST is the UK
local time, and that changes as does our daylight
savings time.  As an aside, apparently at least some
parts of Arizona do not recognize Daylight savings,
and keep one time zone classification throughout the
year....and the same with parts of Australia.

        Dave...N9TTX

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