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[Tomecek]

I am absolutely confused from Time Zones.

Just for make it clear I am in Prague (Czech republic) and we have 14:10 here. Now we are GMT+2 (After 26th of October it will change to GMT+1 because of Summer time period will finish).

Indianapolis currently has GMT-5 (but for US GP time schedule AtlasF1 writes GMT-6, which will become truth after Summer time will end after 26th of October), so there is 7:10 AM now. Means Indiana = Prague - 7 hours.

To make it even more confusing, AtlasF1 writes US GP starts at 14:00 local time, while according to formula1.com it starts at 13:00 local time. As live TV coverage here in Prague is scheduled for 20:00 our time, I would conclude it really starts at 13:00 local time. But I am not sure at all!

Why I am so confused? Probably because even my computer doesn't know!!

It says London has always GMT time, which is not true according to http://www.greenwichmeantime.com GMT is 12:10 and London is 13:10 now.



So, am I right if I will say US GP starts at 13:00 of Indianapolis time, 18:00 of GMT time, 19:00 of London time, and 20:00 of Praue time?

Furthermore, in My AtlasF1's 'Time Now Around the World' feature I have setup Prague time as GMT+2. Need I change it to GMT+1 after Summer time will end? Thanks for clarification

[fifi]

london at the moment is on british summer time which is +1 GMT
at the end of Oct we turn our clocks back 1 hour so we are back on GMT

[Bjorn]

Why not move to Iceland, the friendly island where the time is always GMT

;)

But yeah, I think it should be 20:00 Prague time

[wawawa]

Just use the official countdown on f1.com

[Viktor]

Or use the countdown on AtlasF1, its not dependent on you computer clock settings

Here are the times for the weekend in CET (its in Swedish but I think you understand )

Fredag

Tester 15:30 17:30
1 träningen 18:00 19:00
Förkval 21:00 22:00

Lördag

2 träningen 15:00 15:45
3 träningen 16:15 17:00
Uppvärmning 19:30 19:45
Kvalificering 20:00 21:00

Söndag

Loppet 20:00 22:00

/Viktor

[Tomecek]

Originally posted by Viktor
Or use the countdown on AtlasF1, its not dependent on you computer clock settings

Here are the times for the weekend in CET (its in Swedish but I think you understand )


/Viktor

Swedish times are the same for us!

Why not move to Iceland, the friendly island where the time is always GMT

There is no summer time?

[Vitesse2]

Originally posted by Tomecek
There is no summer time?

There's no summer! It rains, rather than snowing ....

[thornwell]

Just for the record, Indiana is the bastard stepchild of timezones. As an eastern time-zone resident living only 9 miles from Indiana, I can vouch that I still can't fully explain what goes on there. Every time I drive through the state (usually to Chicago) it seems that the time always changes in a different spot. However, for the races, I can assure you that they will be on US Central Time this coming weekend, which will be +8 for you--the catch being that some of the events have different times to better accomodate primetime Euro-viewers.

Hope this clears up a little . . .

[Bjorn]

Originally posted by Tomecek
There is no summer time?

Nope, why bother? In the summer we have 24 hours of sun, in the winter we have 24 hours of darkness. Changing the clock wouldn't change that

[Mosquito]

Originally posted by Bjorn

Nope, why bother? In the summer we have 24 hours of sun, in the winter we have 24 hours of darkness. Changing the clock wouldn't change that

Icelanders are weird people. They have huge internet access and mobile phone usage, yet there's only some 4 McDonalds to be found in the entire country. Pah!