The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13334   Message #109904
Posted By: katlaughing
30-Aug-99 - 09:43 PM
Thread Name: Mudcat Song Contest & Live Radio!!!!
Subject: RE: Mudcat Song Contest & Live Radio!!!!
Oh, Teller, depending on how late you stay up. All you need remember is that the Mudcat, where Max and Bert actually will be broadcasting live from is in the Eastern time zone of the US. If the UK, as was mentioned above for Skarpi in Iceland is five hours later, then that would put the broadcast just about at midnight to one a.m. UK time, as near as I can tell. I think part of the confusion is in the fact that Max posted it as EST, eastern standard time, when we are actually, in the US, at least, in Daylight Savings Time, at the moment, which would then read, EDT, for where the Mudcat originates.

It really gets confusing in some places, such as Arizona, as they do not recognise DST and therefore, when the rest of the nation "springs forward", setting their clocks ahead one hour on the designated date in the Spring, they are all still an hour behind! Of course, when we all "fall back" setting our clocks back one hour on the set date, in the fall/autumn, then we are all in sync again! As far as I am concerned, it is all rather stupid and out-dated and I think they shoudl just leave it alone, but I don't run the country (darn!) so, there it is!

As to the other acronyms you posted, well, who knows?? In teh Rocky Mountains we are on MDT, Mountain Daylight Time, which is 2 hours earlier than where Mudcat MAX is.

Helen, or Alison, from Australia, once sent me a link to a wonderful world clock, with a map of the world and the ability to center the cursor over any location and see what time it was there. I've lost the link and it didn't get loaded into my system the way I thought it had. Maybe whichever of them it was, could put in a link for us all here?

I hope this didn't muddy the waters even more for you or anone else, although remember....Mud is thicker than water!*g*

katlaughing