Need help with Time Differences! Thank you!

bbchris

What is ' 5 and 6pm PST'?? Compared to say California time? Thank you!

DreamTone7 · Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 2571

PST = Pacific Standard Time. This is the local time for California, Oregon, Washington (State, not DC) and other west-coast states.

6PM PST = 6PM in California

MIKE BURN · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2003 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: re

BTW.... the board clock here runs at European Time (MEZ). :me

MIKE

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

On US time zones - the link below might be of interest.

www.time.gov

Also by way of an hourly diff summary, from west coast PST(e.g. California) to East Coast EST(e.g. New York):

12 noon Pacific Standard Time - PST (4am - next day in Hong Kong, I believe)

= 1 pm Mountain Standard Time - MST

= 2 pm Central Standard Time - CST (my time zone, heheh)

= 3 pm Eastern Standard Time - EST

"Standard Time" is as opposed to "Daylight Savings Time" when most of America turns the clock back 1 hour in Autumn and ahead 1 hour in Spring.

Ron

Edited by: RonOnGuitar at: 4/16/03 9:42:23 pm

bbchris

Thank You everyone - this means for me that 5-6pm PST is the next day 9-10am - COOL! If you're wondering why I was asking - I'm going to do some ebay auctions and I was told that 5-6pm PST time is the best time to end an auction!

Steve Iannetti · GweiLo Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 697

What are you auctioning off, Chris.

Yer underpants ? hahahahaha

Let the bidding begin !!!

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Edited by: Steve Iannetti at: 4/18/03 2:40:22 pm

LarreeMP3 · Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 1935

...Pacific Standard Time!

bbchris

huh? What's the difference between standard and daylight?!??!

Steve! how did you guess????

DreamTone7 · Joined: 20 Sep 2002 Posts: 2571

Standard is just that....standard.

With Daylight, you add one hour (advance the clocks one hour). This was originally incited to aid farmers back when America had an agrarian-based economy. It gave them more daylight hours during normal business hours to get their work done. Most Americans don't like it because it's a pain in the tookus, but for some reason the government won't change it. One or two states (I think Arizona and New Mexico?) don't do it. Daylight occurs in the spring, and goes back to Standard in the fall. Spring=ahead, Fall=back. Get it?