Round 11 reminder

[lolmac]

Less than a day before Round 11 begins!  We will start at midnight GMT, not midnight London time, now that I have learned the difference.  *hangs head*  I thought I could tell time, but the problem is that sometimes it doesn't listen to what I tell it.

And I tell you all now:  I need some help this weekend, covering shifts.  Specifically, I need help with the following:

Midnight GMT Saturday - 8 am GMT Sunday
3 pm - 4 pm GMT Sunday
8 pm - 10 pm GMT Sunday

Here are some fine websites to help you figure out when that is in your timezone:

World Clock Meeting Planner

World Clock TIme Zone Converter

Greenwich Mean Time

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I don't need to - I KNOW! I live in England. I just didn't know you guys didn't know the difference between BST and GMT. Thought it was widely known even to non-Brits. After all, Americans have Daylight Savings.

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

Oh okay, sorry. I must have read your post the other way around or something. Someone else from England showed up here during BST once and expected everything to be an hour off because of it, so I thought maybe it was a common confusion, like how so many people over here don't know their GMT offsets.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well I just assumed you'd be starting an hour different because we're on BST not GMT at the moment.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

For me, it wasn't that I didn't know of BST, but that I didn't know that BST runs from March to October. Not only does Daylight Savings change on different dates than British Summer Time does, but we've had our Daylight Savings dates messed around with in the recent past. So I'm still struggling to remember when our own clocks change right now. It sounds like BST is pretty stable and well-known over there, which is great, but over here it's very common to have the "what, the clocks are changing this weekend?" conversation.

So don't blame the Americans for being clueless . . . sometimes we just are, sorry.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Well sometimes Brits don't remember the exact date, so those conversations aren't unusual here either. I just happen to remember that it's the last Sunday in October and March. But then I've got a head stuffed full of information that *some* people would consider trivia.

(Eg I was watching the latest episode of Law & Order: UK this morning and there's the revelation that someone suffered a spiral fracture in their arm - and I immediately said "That was no ordinary accident because you only get spiral fractures from someone twisting the arm with great force to break it." Because that's the kind of weird stuff I know.)

[thisbluespirit]

Yeah, it always changes in October and March, but you ould think it didn't the amount of people who either: a) don't know it's changing, b) can't remember which way it's changing or c) forget and arrive places an hour late or early. (The Sunday the clocks go back and forward is always one where you wait to see who'll turn up at a strange time in church...)

It is one of those things you get so used to, you forget it's relatively local, as it were.

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

I eventually notice that my computer clock doesn't match my other ones, and then I fix them all. Usually I'll get a bit of an advance warning when I overhear someone else talking about it (usually all conversations include one person who can't remember "spring forward fall back"). I rarely catch the exact date.

I don't even know about this recent screwing around we're meant to have gone through. I wouldn't notice a change. Time changes never followed any logic to begin with.