PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone?

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Re: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 19, 2005 at 19:45 UTC
GMT is not England's time zone (at least not in computer terminology), at least not year round, since GMT does not obey Daylight Savings Time.	[reply]
Re^2: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by inman (Curate) on Apr 19, 2005 at 22:13 UTC
The United Kingdom is in the Western European Time Zone. Western European Standard Time (WET) is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). See this site for the details.	[reply]
Re^3: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 19, 2005 at 22:25 UTC
The site to which you linked contradicts you. In big bold characters, it says the UK is currently using GMT+1, not GMT. The site goes on to say the UK sometimes uses GMT, sometimes uses BST (which is GMT+1).	[reply]
Re^4: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by inman (Curate) on Apr 20, 2005 at 08:27 UTC
Re^5: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by demerphq (Chancellor) on Apr 20, 2005 at 11:54 UTC
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Re^2: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by ambs (Pilgrim) on Apr 19, 2005 at 19:46 UTC
Ok. That explains it. I really don't understand must about timezones O:-) Alberto Simões	[reply]
Re: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by ysth (Canon) on Apr 20, 2005 at 00:20 UTC
Unless you live in the Azores, I'm guessing you use WET/WEST, which are the same as the English GMT/BST. On the Timezone Settings page, we try to provide at least one link to click for each currently unique timezone, where unique means different in regular offset, savings time offset (if any), savings time beginning/ending rules, or abbreviations. The link there for WET/WEST is labeled Atlantic/Canary, which I think is what you want. If you are particular about your timezone name matching your actual country, click on one of the links, and then edit the url it uses to specify what timezone you want (for example, Europe/Lisbon or Atlantic/Madeira); the perlmonks servers use a fairly recent Olson timezone database. I thought tye had set up a page to allow you to test whether/how a timezone name was supported, but don't recall where that was (and may just be misremembering).	[reply]
Re: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Apr 19, 2005 at 19:45 UTC
Just a guess, but does Portugal honor Daylight Savings Time? Useless trivia: In the 2004 Las Vegas phone book there are approximately 28 pages of ads for massage, but almost 200 for lawyers.	[reply]
Re: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by bofh_of_oz (Hermit) on Apr 20, 2005 at 20:11 UTC
Another thing about time zones on PerlMonks: I have thought that whatever is to the west of Greenwich, supposed to have GMT -<insert your number here>, e.g. GMT-5 for Eastern Standart Time (that's what my Windows box says anyways :). So, when asking for admission to this glorious monastery, I was somewhat surprised to see something like this: User's localtime: Apr 20, 2005 at 16:06 GMT+4 I know that right now the difference is 4 hours... but why '+' instead of '-'?	[reply]
Re^2: PerlMonks issue with Portugal timezone? by RatArsed (Monk) on Apr 21, 2005 at 12:26 UTC
Same reason that people in the UK and portugal are on +1. UTC is a synonym for GMT, and may make more sense -- neither observe DST. So, at the moment, the local time observed in Greenwich is GMT+1 (BST). Things get scarier in some parts of the US (parts of Indiana, for example) that do not observe DST. -- RatArsed	[reply]


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