Time Tables of the World

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Solaris
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Time Tables of the World

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Time Tables of the WORLD

I noticed many people seem to have trouble to know which time it is
where in the world and what kind of timeszone they are in themselves.
Which can then result in the case that you made an online appointment but you find
yourself very much alone at that given time. (and let's be honest... it IS confusing!!!)

I'll try to make a scedule that is easy for everyone to check themselves what time they will have and what time for others it will be elsewhere. It can be much of a mess with all these Abbreviations etc ;)

Lets start with the UTC. If everyone keeps to the time UTC it is easy for all and we all need to make just one calculation on which time it is where in the world.

UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time. it is the primary time standard
by which the world regulates clocks and time.
It is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
For most purposes, UTC is synonymous with GMT.

Here is a map of UTC time, minus or plus the time in your country/zone.



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Example...

You live in South Africa and you made an appointment at 6 pm UTC. Your local time will be 8 pm.
In Tokio however it will be UTC+9 which will give you 3 am local time.

Now some countries have a so called summer and winter time.
DST:Daylight saving time (DST).This is the practice of advancing clocks
during the lighter months so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.
Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.
Yr behind the number means this country does NOT have DST so nothing changes all year around. For europe and many others however it does change. Summertime will give you another hour to ad or subtract.

Example:

You live in the Netherlands and it is summertime. UTC time is 8 am.
In summer time the netherlands has a UTC zone of UTC+2 instead of winter when it has UTC+1. (the numbers given between the (...) is the DST.)
Local time in the Netherlands will be 10 am in summer when it is 8 am UTC.

To have this out of the way I'll make a little table with most different local standard times and wordings in comparrison with UTC. This table can be directly followed on the map again.

From UTC to Local Time:
Eastern Standard Time (EST) UTC - 5 hours = EST
Central Standard Time (CST) UTC - 6 hours = CST
Mountain Standard Time (MST) UTC - 7 hours = MST
Pacific Standard Time (PST) UTC - 8 hours = PST
Gulf Standard Time (GST) UTC + 4 hours = GST
Arabia Standard Time (AST) UTC + 3 hours = AST
Indian Standard Time (IST) UTC + 5:30 hours = IST
Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) UTC + 10 hours = AEST
Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) UTC + 8 hours = AWST
Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) UTC + 9:30 hours = ACST

I hope this helps people making their guild/rp/etc appointments online!

Have fun all and enjoy!

(((P.S Perhaps there already is something like this on the forum and I did it all for nothing hehe! In that case disregard it all and I'll delete it.

P.P.S I am not sure if this is the right place to post it. I'll move it if this is the case ;) )))
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very helpful !
thank you.
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yes thank you
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Stickied. Will look at cleaning up stickies later on though, or compounding a few. There's quite a lot of them now!
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