I cant get this script working in koolmoves :(

We got time coz we invented it!, until us, people kept missing things, and they didnt know by how much!
by the way it's 22.57 proper time!

nah, its 00:06 :P and remember - 15° = 1h, so 1° = 4 mins :P

Yep but its summer for me Mum in Australia, thats just wrong!

Yea its summer for me in NZ =)

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Originally Posted by Stoke Laurie

You should all set your clocks to our time here in England, the home of time, where the Grenwich meridian sets the standard for all the World.

Hi Stoke, while pride in the Empire's achievements is justifiable, times have changed, so to speak.

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) replaced Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the World standard for time in 1986. UTC is maintained by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris (BIPM). I guess I'm one of the older people here, because I remember reading about the outrage in England when the change was made. As I recall, Greenwich Observatory couldn't afford to maintain its aging atomic clock.

Even though the standard is maintained in Paris, today the UTC is based on the average of atomic clocks located around the world (I guess averaging out fluctuations due to local gravitational effects, Earth's rotation, et.al.). At times there is as much as a second difference between GMT and UTC, as the UTC uses "leap" seconds to compensate for these effects.

Ever country has a department of standards that determines the source of their official time. In the US, this is the US Naval Observatory (USNO). The USNO is one of the contributing entities to the BIPM's determination of UTC. UTC is the basis for 24 hour clock (Zulu Time) used by the US military.

There appear to be different atomic clock time standards, specific to fields of research in physics and astro-physics. But I won't get into that.

Researching stuff on the internet is so easy, I almost wish I was back in school :). BTW, I'm in time zone -8:00 (daylight savings time, come spring it changes to -7:00, Pacific Standard Time in the US). And happy New Year. :D

Peter

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Originally Posted by pherbrick

At times there is as much as a second difference between GMT and UTC, as the UTC uses "leap" seconds to compensate for these effects.

I guess this is why I was late to work this morning :p