Timezones and HBP Release

[Karen Barker]

It doesn't.  I'm British and I can assure you that the whole of the 
UK has the same time.  Greenwich Mean Time in Winter and British 
Summer Time in summer which is GMT +1.

Karen

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Joe Bento" <joseph at k...> 
wrote:
> Joe:
> 
> Since I also have ham radio as a hobby, I thought I had a pretty 
> good understanding of time zones.  Then again, most of the 
> references ham operators use for world-wide contacts is in GMT and 
> not local time.
> 
> Of course GMT does not follow daylight savings (summer time), so 
it 
> is a constant.  
> 
> Looking at the time zones, it appears the whole of the UK is 
within 
> the 0 meridian or same time zone.  How then does Edinburgh gain 
> GMT+2 hours? Do they go on a double summer time schedule?
> 
> I'm really confused now!  :-)
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "storm" <miss_megan at b...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > No Fair!! I want it when they get it! Where's my book!!!
> > 
> > storm, in Sydney
> >