Re: Timezone offset
| From: | Seak, Teng-Fong | Date: | Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:24:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Timezone offset | ||
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Satyam wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Boget" <chris.boget@wild.net>
>> My server's timezone is set to "(GMT) Greenwish Mean Time : Dublin,
>> Edinburgh, Lisbon, London".
>
> There you have why, you set it to GreenwiSh, which is kind of
> Greenwich but not quite.
>
> I think that being on the western end of Europe, those countries
> decided to adopt a more pan-European time zone, even if that does not
> match precisely their astronomical hour. That makes cross border
> businesses easier by having common working hours.
UK's timezone is GMT (+0000) while most other western European
countries like Spain, France, Germany, etc are in GMT +1000.
> It might also have to do with whether it is Savings Time or not.
This year, we all changed to DST last Sunday morning.
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