Timezones and HBP Release

[davewitley]

> What I don't understand though is that the Bloomsbury website said:
> "Immediately after midnight, at 00.01am on Saturday 16th July JK 
Rowling
> will read from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the Great 
Hall at
> Edinburgh Castle"
> http://www.bloomsbury.com/harrypotter/def_text.asp?sec=3
> 
> Edinburgh is 2 hours ahead of GMT so they are getting it two hours 
ahead of
> the rest of us.

Edinburgh prides itself on being a progressive city, but as far as I 
know it keeps time with the rest of the UK, which is one hour ahead of 
GMT in the summer.  Nobody, apart from a very few directly connected 
with its publication, is getting it early.

David