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[topical]

According to the official F1 website both qualy and race start at 17:00 Australian time.

However when I convert to local time (I am CET) it says qualy starts at 07:00 and the race at 08:00.

To further confuse matters, Autosport tells me that the race starts at 07:00 my time, but RTL says it starts at 08:00.

In a word, I am confused. Don't the clocks change in Australia this weekend?
And most importantly, can anyone say for sure (!) when the race starts CET (taking the clock change into account)?
Cheers!
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[phil1993]

Qualifying and the race are 0600GMT. Australia do not change. UK & Europe does.

[Disgrace]

Clocks change in the UK and Europe, but not Australia. Race itself starts 7am CET, I'm fairly sure but I will set my alarm earlier to be sure.

[lustigson]

According to RTL GP (the Dutch site), the RTL (Dutch broadcaster), the BBC online TV guide, and Autosport.com, both qualifying as well as the race itselfs, start at 07.00 CET.

[topical]

Clocks change in the UK and Europe, but not Australia. Race itself starts 7am CET, I'm fairly sure but I will set my alarm earlier to be sure.

No, qualifying starts at 7:00. So if 17:00 in Australia tomorrow is 07:00 CET tomorrow, then 17:00 in Australia on Sunday must be 08:00 CET on Sunday. Right?

Edited by topical, 25 March 2011 - 20:08.

[Umpire]

According to f1.com, qualifying starts at 0700 CET and race at 0800 CET. This is consistent with a 1700 start in Melbourne, provided that Australia does not apply DST on Sunday.

Edited by Umpire, 25 March 2011 - 20:07.

[topical]

According to RTL GP (the Dutch site), the RTL (Dutch broadcaster), the BBC online TV guide, and Autosport.com, both qualifying as well as the race itselfs, start at 07.00 CET.

According to RTL Germany and the official site, the race starts at 08:00. So basically all the sites are contradicting each other. Oh well, hopefully the commentators will clear it up during qualy tomorrow as no one here seems to know either...

[topical]

According to f1.com, qualifying starts at 0700 CET and race at 0800 CET. This is consistent with a 1700 start in Melbourne, provided that Australia does not apply DST on Sunday.

Yes, I think that must be right and Autosport plus numerous TV channels have their info wrong.

[Umpire]

A quick internet search says Australia applies DST on the first Sunday of April instead of the last of March. So I guess, indeed, Autosport et al have got it wrong.

[zdzisio]

According to f1.com, qualifying starts at 0700 CET and race at 0800 CET.

...but you do understand the difference between Central European Time and Central European Summer Time?

[madraykin]

The race start is 6am GMT. So in the UK that will be 7am, GMT +1 (BST), and Europe will be 8am, GMT +2.

Autosport and Formula1.com do the 'to my local time' conversion looking at your current time/date settings so for this weekend that conversion will be an hour wrong for sunday.

Edited by madraykin, 25 March 2011 - 20:15.

[ferrarijon123]

According to f1.com, qualifying starts at 0700 CET and race at 0800 CET. This is consistent with a 1700 start in Melbourne, provided that Australia does not apply DST on Sunday.

F1.com says qualifying and race start at 17.00 in australia. Over here in England qualifying starts at 6am and the race starts at 7am. Which makes sense because the clocks go forward here but they dont in australia.

[TIFOlonSO]

So 6 GMT the qualifying and 7 GMT the race (or same 6 for those who forget to change the clocks).

[Bloggsworth]

If you log on to F1.com and view the schedule it gives you the option of "Your local time".

[ferrarijon123]

So 6 GMT the qualifying and 7 GMT the race (or same 6 for those who forget to change the clocks).

Yeah thats right mate

[Watkins74]

If none of that helps you just go to Autosports home page and look at the "Countdown Clock".

[topical]

The race start is 6am GMT. So in the UK that will be 7am, GMT +1 (BST), and Europe will be 8am, GMT +2.

Autosport and Formula1.com do the 'to my local time' conversion looking at your current time/date settings so for this weekend that conversion will be an hour wrong for sunday.

That was my whole point: Autosport and Formula1.com give DIFFERENT answers when I click on 'convert to local time' otherwise I wouldn't be asking this question.
However the first part of your reply has cleared up the issue. It starts at 8 Central European time. Thanks

[madraykin]

That was my whole point: Autosport and Formula1.com give DIFFERENT answers when I click on 'convert to local time' otherwise I wouldn't be asking this question.
However the first part of your reply has cleared up the issue. It starts at 8 Central European time. Thanks

Hah, yeah I was working on how formula1.com worked last year when it was the same as autosport and didn't actually look at it . It looks like this year they've worked some coding magic to make it recognise the timezones that will have daylight savings and adjust the race time accordingly.

So Formula1.com is giving the correct timings.

Edited by madraykin, 25 March 2011 - 20:30.

[GrzegorzChyla]

According to f1.com, qualifying starts at 0700 CET and race at 0800 CET. This is consistent with a 1700 start in Melbourne, provided that Australia does not apply DST on Sunday.

the race starts at 8h00 local european time, but it is EET (Eastern European Time).

[Umpire]

...but you do understand the difference between Central European Time and Central European Summer Time?

Yes. I have used "CET" for CET time zone with its applicable DST setting on a given date, but I guess CEST would have been more accurate for this Sunday.

the race starts at 8h00 local european time, but it is EET (Eastern European Time).

It starts 0900 EET with DST implemented (or, to be more accurate, 0900 EEST)

Too many abbreviations Anyway years of confusion have led me to this conclusion: if in doubt, GMT references work.

Edited by Umpire, 25 March 2011 - 21:59.

[STIGG]

Check the F1 site just before going to bed and set a countdown timer on the phone to go off one hour earlier to get pre race build up.

Previous experience has taught me not to trust alarm clocks, they either change automatically when you don't want them to or don't when you're depending on them!

[V8 Fireworks]

, provided that Australia does not apply DST on Sunday.

Since it is autumn in Australia, this would be a poor idea.

[MrAerodynamicist]

For a definitive answer, plug the *day* and time in to the World Clock converter, select Melbourne, and your location.
http://www.timeandda.../converter.html

[ryan86]

http://www.bbc.co.uk.../world-12849630

An article the BBC have put up today about time differences today.

Edited by ryan86, 26 March 2011 - 00:00.

[Alfisti]

This is turniong into quite the freak out every year as people have NFI what's going on.

[Henrytheeigth]

Haha well not long till 5pm here, and boy is it cold at present. I am not even wanting to bike ride lol