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Timezones ?

Postby -sam- » Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:55 am

I wonder if the timezones are correct. Or if there is something i have missed ?! When I start
a flight in Munich I would expect to have gmt+1 but
flightsim shows two hours difference. like Munich local
time 6:00 gmt 4:00. Why ? I thought this  could be related
to daylight saving times but when I switch between seasons
it
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Re: Timezones ?

Postby expat » Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:25 am

Fs runs in UTC, just like all airlines. UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time. Great Britain (GMT) is one hour ahead of UTC during summer. Munich is 1 hour ahead of the UK. That means Munich  is 1 hour ahead plus another hour due to the UK being in summer, 1 hour ahead of UTC, so Munich is 2 hours ahead. So as all flights are in UTC (not for pax, to confusing) your German flights will be listed as departing at 04:00 UTC (06:00  local)
When the clocks go back for winter, the UK becomes on par with UTC and then you have only one hour difference.
Get your head around that your are better than me. I have to work in UTC, and still get it wrong
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Re: Timezones ?

Postby JBaymore » Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:32 am

I've posted this link down in the "Multiplayer" forum a number of times... but I'll put it here too for maybe a bit more "general readership":

http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm

That should help you figure out time zones a bit.

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Re: Timezones ?

Postby -sam- » Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:32 am

Thank You very much !
That was the problem. :)
I thought GMT includes summer and winter time.

It seems that flightsim doesn
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