American times are confusing anyways... If it was based on GMT it'd much easier to understand. Or call it UTC if you can't stand the fact that the 0 line is in Europe for I believe UTC is the same as GMT?

Ok I Wikied it and this is what I found...


Pacific time, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. GMT was formerly used as the international civil time standard, now superseded in that function by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Today GMT is considered equivalent to UTC for UK civil purposes (but this is not formalised) and for navigation is considered equivalent to UT1 (the modern form of mean solar time at 0° longitude); these two meanings can differ by up to 0.9 s. Consequently, the term GMT should not be used for precise purposes.[1]

Due to Earth's uneven speed in its elliptical orbit and its axial tilt, noon (12:00:00) GMT is rarely the exact moment the sun crosses the Greenwich meridian and reaches its highest point in the sky there. This event may occur up to 16 minutes before or after noon GMT, a discrepancy calculated by the equation of time. Noon GMT is the annual average (i.e. "mean") moment of this event, which accounts for the word "mean" in "Greenwich Mean Time". time, lord-knows-what time... makes my head spin. I'm at GMT+2. Americans are at GMT -8 through GMT -6.
Now ain't that a whole lot easier?

American times are confusing anyways... If it was based on GMT it'd much easier to understand. Or call it UTC if you can't stand the fact that the 0 line is in Europe for I believe UTC is the same as GMT?

Pacific time, Mountain time, lord-knows-what time... makes my head spin. I'm at GMT+2. Americans are at GMT -8 through GMT -6.
Now ain't that a whole lot easier?

Easy for you to say...I guess.

Yes, my posts are PST. I see that.

I am ever confused when I awake and view messages all over the place regarding time posted.

I gave up years ago here on Mingle many things.

Seems Robxbox has it nailed. I guess.

Hi Crystal, don't know if it would make things easier. GMT, UTC, Central Standard Time, Eastern S.T., Mountain S.T....they are all a pain. GMT is for UK. With UTC superseded it?? Ok....

What I love about this is, that it shows those idiot flat eathers that we live on a round planet...

Otherwise we would be
on UTT and DTT...
Up thar time
Down thar time!!! Heeeee heee.
;^)
Ciao!

I said to annie from new Zealand in another thread about this, they are a day ahead of us. good thing is that if the world is coming to an end, we will get a days notice

So we could clean up on $ markets knowing the future.

I'm In.

Sure thing, just have to get annie and blondey to give us the heads up then we'll smash the markets!
But hang on, we'll only have a day to spend it!
That'll be a whole lot of cream cakes

With the profits of tomorrow...Just buy futures?
Kind of like "Kiting" $?

Seems simple?

GMT/UTC is Worldwide standard to STANDARDIZE Where the Sun is located!

So you would prefer Noon for CST = Noon for you and it is dark?

Or, do you guys even use "Noon"? Hahahaha!

Brits drive on Left Side to enable predominantly right handed population to be able to swing their swords at oncoming opponents. Chariot days or something?
Some crud regarding Napoleon or somebody! What a trait to hang onto for your life.

I think ounces = ounces everywhere.

Now grams....They are standardized in England and that is only place a gram is a GRAM.

Oh my!

Who's "You guys" I wonder
We don't call it noon nor lunchtime, we say "tussen de middag" or "om 12 uur".

I use Central European Time,but somehow,after Midnight it only shows -1day until sometime around 9AM!
Puzzles the Heck out of me!

http://24timezones.com/

What Time Is It Around The World Right Now?(interactive)