Time Zones

Guest2 · 9 Sep 2009 at 13:58

Never really thought about this. Great Britain uses GMT and everyone else is GMT + or -

If you go to another part of the world, say central America which is - 6 GMT, do they have their own time zone? (something like Central America Time, CAT) then set everyone else in the world as CAT + 6 say for UK?

Just been talking to people at work about this and I always thought everyone works off GMT. I remember when I was in Oz laughing at a map of the world that showed Australia in the middle, with a mass of water on either side and some little bits on the edges for everyone else.

andyp · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:01

Just use UTC and be done with it. Saves any confusion.

~J~ · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:01

Well they have PST.

So 08:00PST, they'd say here in the UK it's +6PST I imagine.

antijoke · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:01

Erm yes they do use their timezones.

NeoNemesis · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:48

anticonscience said:
Erm yes they do use their timezones.

I think what he was asking is do other parts of the world reference other time zones as an offset from their own?

Abraham · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:58

Guest2 said:
Never really thought about this. Great Britain uses GMT and everyone else is GMT + or -

If you go to another part of the world, say central America which is - 6 GMT, do they have their own time zone? (something like Central America Time, CAT) then set everyone else in the world as CAT + 6 say for UK?

Just been talking to people at work about this and I always thought everyone works off GMT. I remember when I was in Oz laughing at a map of the world that showed Australia in the middle, with a mass of water on either side and some little bits on the edges for everyone else.

yes they do, well america does, especially as they have variation within the country

Rich_L · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:58

In the States they refer to it as Pacific Time, Central or Eastern Time, I guess because the country has several time zones. They don't refer to it as +8 or -8 etc though, it's just called Pacific/Central/Eastern

The Mad Rapper · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:59

Guest2 said:
Never really thought about this. Great Britain uses GMT and everyone else is GMT + or -

If you go to another part of the world, say central America which is - 6 GMT, do they have their own time zone? (something like Central America Time, CAT) then set everyone else in the world as CAT + 6 say for UK?

Just been talking to people at work about this and I always thought everyone works off GMT. I remember when I was in Oz laughing at a map of the world that showed Australia in the middle, with a mass of water on either side and some little bits on the edges for everyone else.

No. Everone uses GMT + or - but they have a name for that specific zone.

Amp34 · 9 Sep 2009 at 15:04

The Mad Rapper said:
No. Everone uses GMT + or - but they have a name for that specific zone.

This.

That's the whole point of having a GMT, everything else is measured off the clock at Grenwich Observatory (well used to be). For example Arabic TV stations always do their times in GMT because they stretch over about a dozen time zones..