Re: US to UK(Gb) Time difference and irc

[Félicien Pillot]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:44:59 +0000
Paul Sutton <paulsutton@disroot.org> wrote:

> On 12/03/2020 19:39, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020, at 14:48, Paul Sutton wrote:  
> >> Am I right in thinking that the timings listed on the FSF website
> >> are US eastern time ?  So that a start time of 10am equates to +5
> >> to the Uk which would make it 5pm (17:00hrs).
> >>
> >> I will be online and in #libreplanet anyway, so happy to help out
> >> and hopefully learn how to do this properly over time.  
> > 
> > FYI, Timeanddate.com has some great tools for making it easier to
> > think about time zones. It's good for personal use and also for
> > broadcasting events -- the site places form inputs into the URL so
> > the there is no online storage or sign-up process.
> > 
> > See their Meeting Planner utility:
> > https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html
> > 
> > Disclaimer: I have not verified whether or not the site uses
> > non-free Javascript. I don't concern myself with that issue.  
> 
> Cool thanks,  I am sure it will be fine, but will check that out.


Boston is now in the Eastern Daylight Time zone (EDT), which is equal
to UTC/GMT -4 hours.
So, you could just type that on your shell:


date -d '09:30 EDT'


to get your answers ;)
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