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Default World Times was Dinner Tonight

PL wrote:
> ChattyCathy > wrote in news:XytXn.54407$9c1.7119
> @hurricane:
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>> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:19:17 -0700, sf wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:14:00 -0400, "Dora" > wrote:
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>>>> And a quarter past and a quarter to in London (site of the Greenwich
>>>> Observatory, hence Greenwich Mean Time, from which it all begins).
>>> PS: Which time is London and most of England going by? I don't
>>> remember a time change in or around London.
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>>> PPS: Most of the GMT maps I just looked at (including
>>> http://www.recfoodcooking.com/cvttz.html) do not show a meridian
>>> through London.

>> What Dora said. The lines on the map show the /borders/ of the time
>> zones. The meridian is in the /middle/ of the GMT zone.
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>> Heh, guess it's *well* into the cocktail(s) hour in GMT-8(SF).
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> Well, at 12:23pm Sat Jul03 Brisbane time, it's 4:23am Sat Cape Town,
> 7:24pm Friday US Pacific, 10:23pm Friday US Eastern, 3:23am Sat UK.
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> Looks like Brisbane, Australia, is ahead of the rest of the world.

Shame the state govco is running about 100 years behind

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> Not that it was ever in any doubt.



Gods own country though
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> And good afternoon, good evening, and good morning..... I'm back :-)
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