h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So the message boards are eventually coming over to DNA technology.

* sits and waits for 'Cyrille's Blast From 40 Yards' to show his face *

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Why is it that BST always starts a week earlier than daylight savings time in the US?

Since there's international agreement onf the definitions of timezones, why can't each hemisphere have standardized rules for when summer time starts in the nations that use it? It seems that it would make some things simpler.

"* sits and waits for 'Cyrille's Blast From 40 Yards' to show his face *"

Should we start a welcoming committee? Prepare banners? Or sit back and watch the fireworks?

'oos Cyrille?

05:00 BST eh? I'll just be thinking about sticking a toe out from under the duvet

Cyrille - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/h2/h2.cgi?thread=%3C1080386360-6957.12%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E&find=%3C1080386360-6957.12%40forum2.thdo.bbc.co.uk%3E&board=sixosix.division1&sort=Te

Does this meean that us DIDGY BOXERS wont be able to get in here any more???? sob ...... farewell sob sob

Eh? I didn't think their were any of you left? or can NTL users still access h2g2?

/me clicks link

/me considers.

Fireworks it is then.

I subscribed to the NFG thread and ended up with -215 new posts, I wouldn't figure out what was wrong, but as it seems to a general problem I will refrain from filing a bug report.

Good, because it's a well reported bug and we don't want yet another thread

And from what I understand, the bug will be fixed with this update.

The bug is, indeed, fixed in the new update. Worth it just for that, I'm sure you'll agree.

Cue tomorrow's competition -

"What was the biggest 'minus postings' you had in your conversation list back in the good old days?"

lets start trying to get them now then before its too late.

Hi lemmon blossom,

you asked "Why is it that BST always starts a week earlier than daylight savings time in the US?"

the answer is faily simple. bst is defined to start sometime around the equinox, but I can't remember the specifics off hand. I would guess the the uk, and most of the others that I am aware of, use the weekend before the equinox, and the usa uses the weekend after it.

This time the UK change is a week after the equinox. I also remember Europe messing up where the UK's original time changes used to be. Before that of course I was offended that we were being conned into accepting BST at all merely by virtue of calling it "British".

Personally I like PST, which is what we have here. Very calm time, pacific in fact.

You have to love the Maritimes in Canada who are so different they are a half hour diferent rather than the full hour. Our perogative, we invented time zones anyway.

*Three hours and twenty minutes countdown.*

11,999 seconds....11,998 seconds...11,997 seconds....

Will you be so enamoured of pacific time when your count-down expires at the wrong moment?

... it is now 2:48 BST!

Morning from Japan it's 10.53 of the 30th

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I'm not good at TIME, but is GMT different from BST?
As I read through your post, GMT is unchangeabble time.
(If so, I think GMT is a MEAN TIME)
for this question, but we haven't summer time in Japan at all!

Taamyu

Oh dear, someone wasn't very specific. They were more satlantic. Now I am ever so confused. When does the event occur? Wait a minute, that's not how you spell *blessed*....