Re: IRC (was: Re: Meta-History of Atlantean)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Mills [mailto:romilly@EGL.NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2001 July 10 10:37
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CONLANG] IRC (was: Re: Meta-History of Atlantean)
>
>
> Lars Mathiesen wrote:
> ->> From: taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>
> >> * Lars Henrik Mathiesen said on 2001-07-10 12:56:55 +0200
> >> > ObConlang: Are there any conlang-related channels around
> that are
> >> > active? Maybe Conlang Day would be a good time to set up an IRC
> >> > rendezvous...
> >>
> >> There used to be, #conlang on both ircnet and efnet (I'm on ircnet
> >> when I'm logged in btw.) but there were so little traffic
> they died
> >> away. Taking timezones into consideration that's not
> surprising since
> >> irc is oh so very real time :)
> >
> >Yes, timezones are a problem --- even spanning 7 of them,
> from Denmark
> >to New York for instance, can be a problem on a Wednesday.
>
> Yes, timezones are a problem.  The other night at 11PM (US
> Eastern Daylight Time = New York) my NPR station broadcast
> the BBC news, which gave London
> time as 3 AM.    I've always thought London was at least 5 if
> not 6 hours
> ahead of NYC; so perhaps they were tape-delaying the program?
NYC is EST/EDT, yes? That makes you currently 5 hours away from the time in
the United Kingdom, OR 4 hours away from UTC.  The non-summer time, you'd be
5 hours away from both UTC and UK Time.  Perhaps they were giving the GMT
time instead of the BST (British Summer Time) time?

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