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Re: IRC

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Doede Boomsma wrote:

> Will Smith <wsmith@ctron.com> wrote:
> 
> > what's the time difference?  i'm at Eastern Standard Time, which (last
> > time i checked) was something like GMT-5...  (i might be wrong.)
> 
> I never understood how that all works.

i think GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same time as London, England...
the East Coast of the US is something like 5 hours behind GMT.  (that's
where i am.  i'm not worried about the Left Coast unless i'm chatting with
my dad...)

> All I know is that my time
> differs about 6 hours from the east coast and 9 hours from the westcoast
> of the USA. That means that if I'm online around 10PM, it's 1 to 4 PM
> your time.

oaky.  sounds like you're at GMT+1...  <shrug>

> Of course this isn't easy to set up internationally, but we could set a
> time...

don't you just LOVE scheduling conflicts?

let's see...  can't do IRC at work because of firewalls.  by the time i
get home and my son goes to bed, it's 8pm EST, which would make it
(ummm...) 2am your time.  <shudder>  looks like we're aiming at a weekend,
eh?  <g>

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William Smith    timex-at-tpau.kluge.net
Biddeford, ME    http://www.kluge.net/~timex