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Why is there currently 1 hour difference between GMT & Dublin time?

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  • #62
    Charlie-Bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,727 ✭✭✭Charlie-Bravo


    Just to throw this into the mix - GMT has gone out of style, UTC is the new time!

    -. . ...- . .-. / --. --- -. -. .- / --. .. ...- . / -.-- --- ..- / ..- .--.



  • #63
    steve9859
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭steve9859


    westendgirlie wrote: »

    Isn't that why Doc and Marty McFly bought a delorean ????

    I thought they did that so Marty could score his Ma


  • #64
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    steve9859 wrote: »
    Well, to add to your puzzlement, consider the USA where the boundaries between the four timezones occasionally bisect towns!

    Plus different states have different taffic rules :eek:

    As well as multiple timezones some states dont bother with summer time others do.
    steve9859 wrote: »
    dont even get started thinking on how they might go about scheduling nationwide tv shows!

    American TV networks are based around chains of fairly autonomus local stations.

    Live programmes are carefully scheduled for convenient viewing across the four most populous time zones

    The majority of programmes are Pre recorded and can be scheduled to go out at different times (same local time) in each zone.

    TV scheduling is a bigger problem in Russia but at least since the breakup of the USSR theyve gone from 11 down to 9 (IIRC) timezones


  • #65
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    Ireland should have 12 time zones, to show them Russians.


  • #66
    westendgirlie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    steve9859 wrote: »
    I thought they did that so Marty could score his Ma

    No no that happened in back passage to the future that was the true life story. Cos yahew already told us back to the future was makey uppy.

    So where is this back a day place? Is it far from leitrim?


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  • #67
    steve9859
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭steve9859


    westendgirlie wrote: »
    So where is this back a day place? Is it far from leitrim?

    No, Leitrim is different. It is some mystical vortex where time stands still and nothing ever happens


  • #68
    AntiRip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭AntiRip


    Didn't the east coast of the states like New York stop putting forward the clock the same time as Europe does, or do it on different month as sometimes they are 4 hours behind and sometimes 5 hours?


  • #69
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    AntiRip wrote: »
    Didn't the east coast of the states like New York stop putting forward the clock the same time as Europe does, or do it on different month as sometimes they are 4 hours behind and sometimes 5 hours?

    Could be diferent months (Ireland/UK used to be out of step with the rest of Europe until the late 1980's) or it could be that some states dont do it at all


  • #70
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    just dont get into a debate about time with anyone from Indiana state


  • #71
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    westendgirlie wrote: »
    Are you near Greenwich? How's work going on the Cutty Sark restoration?

    I wish I was :( but have spent many a great day at Greenwich :)


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  • #72
    Yahew
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭Yahew


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    AntiRip wrote: »
    Didn't the east coast of the states like New York stop putting forward the clock the same time as Europe does, or do it on different month as sometimes they are 4 hours behind and sometimes 5 hours?

    Could be diferent months (Ireland/UK used to be out of step with the rest of Europe until the late 1980's) or it could be that some sates dont do it at all

    In general the US, where it happens, goes back to winter time the same weekend as Europe but goes into Summer time a month earlier. that is 4 months which makes more sense than 5.


  • #73
    tommyhaas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    Yahew wrote: »
    Theres a place in the world, westendgirl, where you can gain a day by walking ( or sailing) a metre. And there's a place where you can lose a day by going a metre the opposite direction.

    Thats the way to time travel. De Lorean's are made up, like dinosaurs.

    Anywhere along the international date line
    astrofluff wrote: »
    Just to throw this into the mix - GMT has gone out of style, UTC is the new time!

    I blame people like you for the confusion. GMT is fine, why mess with it? We all know whet it means, so fcuk off and leave it. Its things like UTC, BST, CET, LAT etc that confuse people. If everything was referenced to GMT, there'd be no problem, so instead of this CET/CEST boloxology, it would just be GMT+1/GMT+2 etc


  • #74
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    wait what?
    the uk is now 1 hour ahead or behind us? :confused:

    cause we are still on summer time? I am confused.


  • #75
    wonton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭wonton


    so what if I was in southern england at 12 at midnight on the night the clocks go back an hour, in a time machine and set the machine to go forward an hour, and because the earth revolves and the machine doesnt travel position, only time, it ended up in france during the journey through time , what time would it be?


  • #76
    MyPeopleDrankTheSoup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭MyPeopleDrankTheSoup


    Cool thread bros. But did you know that we used to have a 25 minute offset to Britain before 1916?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Mean_Time


  • #77
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,384 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    I generally just look out for a clock when I get to off the plane and set my watch accordingly.


  • #78
    Nulty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    Mike 1972 wrote: »

    Countries in the Southern hemisphere are putting their clocks back when were putting ours foward

    Exactly. NSW in Australia for example can be 9hours or 11 hours ahead of us, depending on the time of year. 9 hours in our summer and 11 hours in our winter.


  • #79
    Merch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,322 ✭✭✭Merch


    astrofluff wrote: »
    Just to throw this into the mix - GMT has gone out of style, UTC is the new time!

    In before me, I was gonna say it but decided to read to the end just to see if anyone else wrote about UTC. yeh GMT fell from favour, UTC is used, maybe because GMT has connotations of an individual nation setting the time, but when atomic clocks were starting to be used, time had a different definition, GMT meant one thing, cant now saw it means something else so use UTC instead, it actually makes sense to not use the wording GMT, thats my interpretation.

    Also the poster that wrote verticle (sic) and horizontal, I was rushing through to find a reference to UTC, was it a joke or an error that the word verticle (sic) was spelled horizontally and the word horizontal was spelled vertically?? :)


  • #80
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    How do I read a clock?

    http://youtu.be/MS5P6GcUC4s


  • #81
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭gbee


    GMT is still the actual measurement, it's part of the international date line and has not changed. [though some think it should as Greenwich is midday when it should be midnight as each new day starts in the middle of the Pacific with no physical landmark ~ leaving aside the nonsense over the millennium ergo UTC in London should be +12hours and not Zero hour at noon!!!!!]

    However, the term UTC is for universal time there are no changes needed for time zones in GMT

    UTC and GMT are interchangeable. UTC is the agreed terminology and over time GMT will fade to history and disuse.

    For whose wanting to know their real time, they need to set up a Sundial. All it takes is a stick in the sand and a sunny day. If one marks the shadows before noon, and continues to mark the shadows after noon, the shortest shadow represents true noon in you location and it also points to true North at no extra charge. :)

    THANKS for that vid ### hilarious.

    For Ireland is about 25 minutes later from true noon in Greenwich.


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  • #82
    deirdre_dub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭deirdre_dub


    westendgirlie wrote: »
    I'd love a walk in Greenwich Park right now hopping and skipping over the meridian line.

    Don't mind me...... Having nolstalgic childhood memory :)
    I've been to Greenwich twice now. I'd recommend a visit - not only for the observatory, but also for the general craic of the place. Yes, if you are looking for a mean time, I can recommend Greenwich.





    I'll get my coat.


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