RE: Usability poll: Picking timezones

["Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

From: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
Subject: RE: Usability poll: Picking timezones

[snip]

Then of course, math is a requirement for using GMT.  When I learned
that
Amsterdam was GMT +1 and California was GMT -8, I called my puppy's
breeder
around 1:00 AM their time, because I thought they were only 7 hours
later.
They said that they stay up late, so 11 PM was not bad, but 1 AM?  Oops.

Lauren

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Sounds like your MATH was fine.  You added 1 to -8 and got -7. It sounds
like it was more a matter of misunderstanding what the numbers
signified. The negative numbers indicate a time to one side of GMT and
the positive numbers indicate a time to the other side of GMT, so that
in this case you had to ADD 1 to 8 to get 9 hours later.
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