I use Yahoo! a great deal. The Yahoo! account information settings, ask for you to specify your time zone in a weird “integer format,” though.
It lists the time zones like this: -05:00 GMT and so on.
I know what GMT is, but I can’t seem to find out what my “integer” time setting is.
Here’s what I DO know for fact:
[li]I’m on Eastern Standard Time[/li][li]My town is on Daylight Savings Time, but we’re NOT supposed to move our clocks, forward or back, at the time-changes.[/li][li]When DST activates, all the television shows air one hour earlier.[/li][li]When DST ceases, the tv shows air one hour later.[/li]I am 75% certain my “integer” time is -05:00 GMT, however, if you look at a time zone map, the time zone line gets really ziggy-zaggy-funky-wacky, right near where I live, which is Mishawaka, Indiana, USA.
So, can someone please answer, what is my correct “integer” GMT time?
Eastern Time is GMT -5. In other words, when it’s 7 o’clock in England, it’s (7-5), or 2, o’clock in the eastern U. S. I don’t think that there’s any provision made for areas which don’t switch in the summer; you might, if you’re overly concerned about it, change your settings to GMT -6 in the summer.
Eastern is also Central +1, which is of relevance for the settings for this message board.
If I knew the answer to that, then I wouldn’t have this time zone dilemma!!! IIRC Indiana USED to do the turning of the clocks, until around the late 60’s. Then they repealed the turning of the clocks, yet remained on DST. Leave it up to Indiana to “****-up” anything that is supposed to be easy or normal.
I often refer to Indiana as the “Bermuda Triangle” of the Midwest. And you thought the tv show “Eerie, Indiana” was a mere coincidence, bwahahaha. :eek:
Sounds great to me, perpetual DST. I think all states should adopt it. None of this getting dark at 4:30 in the winter stuff (although it’s probably cloudy and snowing most of the time anyway, right?)
Here’s one explanation. They’re on permanent Eastern Standard Time, which is the same thing as permanent Central Daylight Time. Since they are so far west, the effect is more like permanent CDT, but no clocks ever get changed.
Major television stations in the area are in Chicago (CT) and Detroit (ET), which do observe daylight savings time, and so the TV schedules do move back and forth–part of the year, they match EST, and the other part of the year, they match CDT. (Don’t the CT TV programs match the ET times, usually, anyway?)
Oh the joys of living in Indiana and living in a border town at that. I lived on the Ohio/Indiana border. Not fun when the time “changes”. People get all weird and we miss our favorite TV shows sometimes because we forget about the changes.
I’m not doubting the validity of this it just strikes me as odd. As long as I’ve heard it it’s always been that we’ve been on permanent CDT. Oh well chalk another one up to the funky beings of Indiana.
According to the World Time Server, there are also a few counties in the southwest that follow the same pattern, that of Central Time, both standard and daylight savings. In addition, there are some counties in the southeast that appear to be on Eastern Time.
Sigh. Even people who live in Indiana get this wrong.
Nobody in Indiana is on daylight saving time all year round.
Most of Indiana is in the Eastern Time Zone. A few counties in the northwest (Chicago area) and a few counties in the southwest (Evansville, IN, area) are in the Central Time Zone.
All of the counties in the Central time zone in Indiana observe daylight saving time, going on it and off it when the rest of the country does.
All of the counties in the Eastern time zone do not OFFICIALLY observe daylight saving time. Thus, their clocks are “with” the East Coast most of the year, but “with” the Central time zone when the Central time zone observes DST.
Some of the Eastern time zone counties UNOFFICIALLY observe daylight saving time – the ones near Louisville, KY, and Cincinatti, OH.
It is all very well say “stay on DST all the year round so that it does not dark at 4-30” but what about the mornings? . We tried staying on DST (or British Summer Time) in the UK and Ireland back in the sixties. I was working in Ireland at the time and in late November (being so far west) it did not get light till ten in the morning. This scheme is being proposed again and the Scots are not keen on it because of the dark mornings they would have because of their northern latitude. I am afraid there are only the same number of daylight hours in the day no matter how you juggle them.
