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[la_cole]

GMT = Greenwich Mean Time
time zones are defined by their +/- hours difference to GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time

I'm sorry I wasn't clear...I understand that GMT is Greenwich Mean Time...I don't know what time zone it's in...where is 0 hour. Thanks for the link, I'll go check it out.

[la_cole]

Looks like I'm GMT -8.

I don't know if this changes with the advent of daylight savings time?

[KarenJay]

Don't forget, extra fabric and stuff provides extra insulation and helps keep your home warmer or cooler. We all have to do are part for the enviroment.
Brenda in MI

And since my house is currently under renovation (I have no ceilings - just exposed to the iron on the roof) I really need more insulation. The ladies in the shop that I frequent now ask me if I am there to buy more insulation. It is going to be a cold winter here down under so the more fabric the warmer I will be.

[wienerin]

Looks like I'm GMT -8.

I don't know if this changes with the advent of daylight savings time?

I think GMT as "zero-point" stays the same, but the +/- difference will change by 1 due to Daylight Saving Times.

[wienerin]

I'm sorry I wasn't clear...I understand that GMT is Greenwich Mean Time...I don't know what time zone it's in...where is 0 hour. Thanks for the link, I'll go check it out.

Sorry, it was me who did not understand your first question then.
No, GMT and date linee are not the same; as far as I know (and I might be wrong) GMT is always 0 and all other time zones are defined by how many hours they are before or after GMT.

I like this GMT-specification. When you are GMT-8 and my time zone now (Daylight Savings) is GMT+2, I know at a glance that we are 10 hours apart and it is at this very moment half an hour to midnight at your place, while I'm having breakfast.
Good night, la cole!

[Siobhan Shadow]

Here in Canada all insulation has to be fire retardant if it is not if a fire burned the house down then the insurance company won't pay. Maybe that is another reason why insulating a home never crossed my mind it is not legal here in Canada to use it. Shari

[dorie]

Me too it is a challenge can't stand it if I can't find the design

[quiltersblock]

The International Date Line sits on the 180 degree line of longitude in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is the imaginary line that separates two consecutive calendar days. The International Date Line is not a perfectly straight line. Over the years it has been moved slightly to accommodate needs of various countries in the Pacific Ocean. It actually bends to include all of an island in the Pacific.

When looking at a globe or map, you will see that immediately to the left of the International Date Line the date is always one day ahead of the date or day immediately to the right of the International Date Line in the Western Hemisphere. For example: Tonga and Samoa have the same time but are one day apart. That is because Samoa is in the Western Hemisphere and on the opposite side of the International Dateline from Tonga. Hawaii, which is further to the east of Samoa is one hour later in time than Tonga.

Traveling east across the International Date Line (from Asia to North America) results in a loss of a day - or 24 hours is subtracted. Traveling west across the International Date Line (from the Americas to Asia) results in a day being added - 24 hours is gained.

GMT is Greenwich Mean Time; since 1884 Greenwich, England has been the home of GMT. It is sometimes called Greenwich Meridian Time because it is measured from the Greenwich Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. It is the place from where all time zones are measured.

GMT - Greenwich Mean Time - is the mean or average time that the earth takes to rotate from noon to noon.

The Longitude of Greenwich, England is 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 0 seconds - that is how it is said. It is written as 0º, 0’,0”.

GMT is World Time; it is the basis of every world time zone that sets the time of day and it is at the center of the time zone map. GMT sets current time or official time around the globe. Greenwich Mean Time is the basis of the world time clock and marks precision time and military time and is sometimes called Zulu Time. Most time changes are measured by GMT and it is widely regarded as the correct time for every international time zone even though GMT has been replaced by atomic time - UTC, which stands for Universal TIme Coordinated or Coordinated Universal Time. The atomic time clock is adjusted by leap seconds to maintain synchronicity with GMT.

The earth is divided into 24 slices for the 24 hours in a day. In the words of Jimmy Buffet, "It's five-o'clock somewhere." That's true. To obtain local time, a certain number of hours has to be subtracted from or added to GMT, depending upon how many time zones "local time" is from GMT.

The switch to daylight savings time does not affect UTC. It refers to time on the zero or Greenwich meridian, which is not adjusted to reflect changes either to or from Daylight Saving Time. In the US, local time is advanced one hour during daylight saving time - spring ahead and fall back. The Eastern Time zone of the US differs from UTC by 4 hours. That's -4 hours during Daylight Saving Time and -5 hours during Standard Time.

The US has four time zones in the lower 48 states, and six counting all 50 states - and even more if counting territories of Guam and Samoa. EST, CST, MST, and PST are Eastern , Central, Mountain, and Pacific Standard Time. For Daylight Time for Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones, the abreviations are EDT, CDT, MDT, and PDT. There is also AKST and AKDT for Alaska - standard and daylight time, respectively, and HAST and HADT for Hawaii. Eastern Standard Time - cities such as New York, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia, and Wash. D.C. - is five hours behind GMT or UTC-5. This means if it's noon in Greenwich, then it's 7:00am in Eastern Standard Time. It would be -4 if in DST. In Central Standard Time - cities such as Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas, St. Louis, New Orleans, and Nashville - there is a difference of -6 hours or -5 in CDT. CST would be 6:00am. MST - Mountain Standard Time - is -7 hours or -6 hours in MDT, which includes cities such as Denver, Salt Lake City, Billings, Cheyenne, and the western half of North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas, most of Idaho, and a little bit of Oregon, as well as the Navajo Nation in Arizona and a few western counties in Texas. It would be 5:00am in MST if it was noon in Greenwich. PST and PDT - Pacific Standard Time and Pacific Daylight Time are -8 and -7 hours behind Greenwich and would include Los Angeles and the rest of California, Portland and almost all of Oregon, Seattle and all of Washington, the panhandle and western counties of Idaho, Las Vegas and the rest of Nevada, and it would be 4:00am when it's noon in Greenwhich. Alaska is -9 and -8 hours from GMT for Standard and Daylight Savings Time, respectively and would be 3am when it is noon in Greenwhich. Hawaii is -10 and -9 hours from GMT; when it's noon in Greenwhich, Standard time in Honolulu is 2am.

Hugs and Smiles, quiltersblock

[wienerin]

funny enough there are even more than 24 "slices", as there are some time zones "inbetween" shifting x hours and 30 minutes from GMT. There is one such in Australia (Melbourne and Adelaide have times 30 minutes apart); others reaching from India to Iran.
There is a very good visual demonstration of the earth's timezones: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/images.../Timezones.gif

[quiltersblock]

funny enough there are even more than 24 "slices", as there are some time zones "inbetween" shifting x hours and 30 minutes from GMT. There is one such in Australia (Melbourne and Adelaide have times 30 minutes apart); others reaching from India to Iran.
There is a very good visual demonstration of the earth's timezones: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/images.../Timezones.gif

Yup. It actually started as 24 and we've somehow managed to add more hours to the day.
China, despite its size, has one time zone. Everyone used to use solar time. It wasn't very accurate and it was darn confusing if you were someplace else. The development of railroads made it necessary to adopt time zones to avoid the confusion of local time. It was the huge change in space in the US and Canada that the railroads had to go through - several hours from one end to the other - that got the ball rolling. A Canadian railway engineer by the name of Fleming came up with a plan for worldwide standard time in the late 1870s. The Meridian Conference took place in Washington, D.C. in 1884 to discuss it and they agreed on the system that is more or less still in use. England became the starting point because England was the starting point for the US and Canada and was the major power and center of learning and science at the time - along the lines of history is written by the victor. Interesting how all the little lines were drawn according to populations - humans moved time.
Hugs and Smiles, quiltersblock

[krewlkathy]

Me too, I have so many freebies that i can 't find them when I do want them or I can't remember what I have to even know if I want to use them. Sometimes I just browse through my files and check to see what I have forgotten.
It definately is both an obession and an addiction. but there are worse things and they don't take up much space, ha ha
kathy

[clkeck]

I think I spend more time downloading, unzipping and sorting than I do sewing.
Connie

[pbrey8]

I keep trying to organize my files thinking when I get that done I will have more time to use them! Duh! I will never get them organized if I keep downloading more every day!

[wienerin]

that's why I stay away from that Freebies-forum ... or at least try to

[pbrey8]

I try, but I am so addicted now that I can't resist. I love the links to the foreign sites that don't come up on web serches here.

[Roxanne]

I cannot stop searching for and downloading embroidery freebies. I reckon I have thousands already - and am always looking for more. Even though I dont think I would ever have enough time to sew them all out.

Its an obsession...

I am afflicted with the same obsession! We could have worse habits!

[pennykasteel]

Perhaps it's a numan failing, we just love freebies. I am surprised how many I actually use.

[Abbey35215]

Oh, Galfriend are we supposed to USE these designs? I'm just a collector, it seems. LOL

[dnickell]

I didn't want to admit that I was addicted but I have more then I can possibly embroider and the thrill of the hunt is intoxicating. Unfortunately collecting is more intriguing than actually sewing them out.

[brendaj]

LOL. I wonder if we should have a poll about how many freebies we have used? I have used quite a few myself, probably 1/100000000% of what freebies I have collected. How many people have used the designs their machine came with? My first machine, I did use some of the designs, Then I discovered the intenet and freebies. I haven't used any of the included designs of my Janome 350.
It has been said before, collecting freebies is a pretty harmless hobby. It takes up no space, provides a lot of pleasure and on occasion, we may actually use them. What fun!!!!!!
Brenda in MI