What time is it?

Slydice

*looking at my watch it's 9:30 in the evening, i.e. 09:30PM*

according to this:

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/time.asp?locationid=UTC

GMT is 08:30PM

but that the time in ireland is:

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/time.asp?locationid=IE
09:30PM

and the time in England is:

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/time.asp?locationid=GB

also 09:30PM


So that means Ireland is ahead of GMT which is located in England?
I thought time goes up when u go East of GMT and down when you go West of it! Checking my theory it seems to be right when i checked germany which says:

http://www.worldtimeserver.com/time.asp?locationid=DE

10:30PM

but Ireland is West of GMT! I don't understand? Shouldn't Ireland at least be the same as GMT and not more?

*very confused, need explanation*

oeNeo

Ireland is GMT..

yellum

Daylight savings or whatever its called.

Blade

Had me baffled a while back too when BBC world would say a program is on at say 8 GMT and I'd go at 8 and I'd be an hour off. I think what it is is that GMT is fixed but for the daylight saving we go off GMT by an hour and then go back to it. I think this is what it is anyway!

mike65

Daylight Savings...? I thought only the yanks used that term.

Its British Summer Time until the clocks go forward or back or whichever way it is.

Then there's that thing calld Universal Time which is the technical name for GMT.

I just wish we could stick to "Winter Time" myself....

Mike.

Manach

Always confused the heck out of me, still a link which explains some of it from Greenwich http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/summer/summer.html

Makaveli

From the bottom of the pages with the time.

What is DST?
DST stands for Daylight Saving Time, also referred to as Summer Time. Daylight Saving Time is used in many locations around the world as a time adjustment to local clocks, hoping to take greater advantage of available natural light during the summer months. World Time Server shows each time as either DST or Standard to show whether the time provided has been adjusted from the Standard time zone rules for this location.

Also isnt it every 15deg longtitude is an hour on.

sceptre

Originally posted by Makaveli
Also isnt it every 15deg longtitude is an hour on.

As a rule, yes

(360 degrees divided by 24 hours = 15)

In practice obviously countries make up the rules as they go along - Russia used (and perhaps still does) advanced the clock by one hour everywhere all year round to add on an extra hour of sunlight. Saudi Arabia sets the clocks to midnight at sundown every day. And a few countries/Ozzie states fix their time at x hours + half an hour pretty muchfor the sheer hell of it.

Confusing enough that I'd almost embrace Swatch Internet Time.

DapperGent

Daylight Saving Time irritates me. For a lot of the stuff I have to do in work I go by universal (GMT) but for stuff specifically to do with Ireland (a goodly amount) I have to go by local time. It really threw me off at the start of the summer. I'm not that clever obviously.

jd

Originally posted by sceptre



In practice obviously countries make up the rules as they go along - Russia used (and perhaps still does) advanced the clock by one hour everywhere all year round to add on an extra hour of sunlight. Saudi Arabia sets the clocks to midnight at sundown every day.

Dublin had a 17 minutes time difference wrt London at one stage...

mike65

Dublin had a 17 minutes time difference wrt London at one stage...

Unitil the railways become established time was a moveable feast.
For some, esp in latin/catholic countries it still is.

Mike.

Blade

Originally posted by jd


Dublin had a 17 minutes time difference wrt London at one stage...

Well they are in theory 17 mins ahead of us if you were to split up that hour and light wise. I remember the last eclipse there London didn't get it till about 17 mins after us.