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Post by fisto on Jul 18, 2017 17:06:33 GMT
Determining your GMT(+/-)(For those of you living outside of the states, refer to this image instead: imgur.com/msXHB.png)[/b][/font] 5 hours from UTC (GMT - 5:00) [*] CST - Central Standard Time: 6 hours from UTC (GMT - 6:00) [*] MST - Mountain Standard Time: 7 hours from UTC (GMT - 7:00) [*] PST - Pacific Standard Time: 8 hours from UTC (GMT - 8:00) [*] AKST – Alaska Standard Time: 9 hours from UTC (GMT - 9:00) [*] HST - Hawaiian Standard Time: 10 hours from UTC (GMT - 10:00) (Unlike most states in the US, Daylight Saving Time is not observed in Hawaii, which maintains its 10 hours difference behind GMT throughout the year. In short, the GMT will always be -10.)[/ul][/ul] Determine your GMT and count from a Star Tournament's GMT (this is typically EST). For example, if I live in the Eastern time zone (GMT - 5:00) and I want to find out what time an ST will be for me that's hosted in the Pacific time zone (GMT - 8:00), I would count 3 hours back because the difference between -5 and -8 is -3. So 12pm for me would be 9am for the Pacific time zone. Please try and utilize this as best you can before nagging at someone about what time a Star tournament will be for you. In the event that you cannot compute your time zone or are unsure you got it right don't hesitate to post in this thread prior to an ST for me to assist you with figuring it out.
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Post by IceFire2050 on Jul 19, 2017 1:02:04 GMT
This is a horrible guide and you should be using UTC for your scheduled times.
Simple reason being, none of those time zones are currently in use, aside from HST
It is currently Daylight Savings which means we use the "____ Daylight Time" Time zones.
You shouldn't even mention GMT as it's also a timezone and not a standard used anymore to measure time zones.
The reason why it leads to confusion is... in Greenwich, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (UTC+0) is only observed during the winter. During daylight savings, that time zone becomes British Summer Time (BST) (UTC+1).
EST is currently EDT and is UTC-4 CST is currently CDT and is UTC-5 MST is currently MDT and is UTC-6 PST is currently PDT and is UTC-7 AKST is currentl AKDT and is UTC-8
You are correct about Hawaii though. Hawaii is always in HST like you said. They're always UTC-10
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Post by fisto on Jul 19, 2017 17:24:30 GMT
This was simply a copy/paste from the original one years back
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