Re: Announce: Downunder Chat - Reminder

[spectrumdaddy@nospam.com (Ewen)]

Jeff,

> > Come Autumn (Fall), the chat goes back by two hours, to 10:00am GMT.
> > This is because of summer time changing to winter time in the northern
> > hemisphere, and the changing from winter time to summer time in Oz.
> 
> This depends on where you are.  Where I am in Canada we do observe
> daylight savings time and it looks like all but Queensland in Australia
> do as well.  But yes, if the chat start time changes to daylight savings
> and we do as well, the chat would move back by two hours which would
> make it too early for me to go to if I'm still working midnight shifts
> by then.

As you say, it depends where you are. Australia mostly will go into
summer time as we drop back to winter time, hence the two hour
difference for me. But if your area does not have summer time, or
changes more than one hour, it will be a different number of hours than
that! 

It gets me confused sometimes, but at least once I have got it right, it
is set for a few months! Andrew has pointed you at a web site that will
calculate it all out for you.

> I think you meant Friday morning.  HADT (Hawaii-Aleution Daylight Time)
> is currently at GMT -09:00 which puts 9 pm AEST (GMT +10:00) at 2 am
> HADT.

These time zones can be confusing. I was actually thinking it would be
evening there. That would of course have been Thursday evening, not
Friday, but as they are -09:00, that would indeed make it early Friday
morning. It reminds me of the time I flew from Australia to LA, and got
there before I left. Having flown east to Australia, it all kind of
balanced out in the end...

> I'll see if I can make it this coming Friday.

Hope to see you then.

Cheers - Ewen