Time Zones (was Re: [computer-go] KGS Slow tournament)

[Oliver Lewis]

correct.  We have British Summer Time (GMT+1) from Spring to Autumn (Fall),
so the Mac widget probably adjusts for that.

On 1/1/07, Peter Drake <drake at lclark.edu> wrote:
>
> An interesting report.
>
> I have a question about a line near the end where you address the two
> meanings of "UCT":
>
> "UCT as applied to times stands for Universal Coordinate Time. It is
> the same, for most practical purposes including ours, as GMT,
> Greenwich Mean Time, the time zone based on London, England."
>
> I had an experience where I set a Mac OS X "Dashboard Widget" clock
> to London time, and it was an hour off from UCT. I could only get the
> correct time by using Dakar as the city. Does London use something
> like Daylight Savings Time, making London time the same as GMT/UCT
> only part of the year?
>
> Peter Drake
> Assistant Professor of Computer Science
> Lewis & Clark College
> http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/
>
>
> On Dec 23, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Nick Wedd wrote:
>
> > I have written up the week's Slow KGS bot tournament. My report,
> > which is fuller than usual, is at
> > http://www.weddslist.com/kgs/past/s1/index.html
> >
> > I think that, despite various accidents, the event was a success. I
> > plan to hold another one, but only after the next release of the
> > KGS server fixes the "five minute rule" bug.
> >
> > Congratulations to the winner, MoGoBot19!
> >
> > Nick
> > --
> > Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk
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