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[TMcNasty]

Hey everyone. I coughed up the $99 today for RP. I row most everyday at 14:00GMT. In fact, I setup an SR four days a week called 30MinsWorkout in that slot. Sat. Sun. Tues. and Thurs. Join if you can. I try to row everyday at that time but don't do an SR the other days b/c I'm the babysitter those days and I dunno if the babe will fall asleep for me those days right at 10. If she does I set it up as a QR. See u on the river!

[Citroen]

I row most everyday at 14:00GMT.

You may find more folks by posting on http://concept2.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=10 since for half the year our standard time zone is GMT.

[Carl Watts]

Welcome aboard.

If you only use it half as much as I do you will still get your monies worth out of RowPro. it's a great bit of software that gets you rowing with others at any time of the night or day, rain or shine without any of the hassles or expense associated with OTW.

[TMcNasty]

I row most everyday at 14:00GMT.

...since for half the year our standard time zone is GMT.

Citroen pardon my ignorance, but I have no idea what you mean by this. Isn't GMT always GMT? I live on the east coast of the US where we use daylight savings time. Our clocks are actually ahead 1 hour right now compared to winter when we move it back. This is independent of GMT though. GMT never changes right?

[icomefrombirmingham]

At our longitude (i.e. EST longitudes) we are currently 4 hours behind GMT. But the Brits are currently one hour ahead of GMT...this is called British Summer Time over there, I think. So, we are five hours behind the Brits.
I think Citroen was referring to their time change when he said that he was on GMT for half of the year.
BST= April to October?

But you are correct...GMT is always GMT.

[TMcNasty]

Oh I get it now. Thanks. Thought only us crazy yanks played with DST. I guess that's why GMT is the default.

[Citroen]

Oh I get it now. Thanks. Thought only us crazy yanks played with DST. I guess that's why GMT is the default.

GMT (in fact it's UTC when we add on the 17 leap seconds) is the base time zone around which all others are calibrated and is the winter timezone for the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. That's because the United Kingdom beat the French when it came to owning the internation time standard (Paris is 2° 21′ 3″ E). It's also because we owned a large part of the world including America when Harrison invented his marine chronometer that could be used to accurately measure longitude on a ship. If the French had won all our watches and clocks would be off by 9 minutes.

We also invented a unified time zone across the whole of the United Kingdom so that a railway train departing from Bristol (2° 35′ 0″ W) would arrived at a predictable time in London (0° 0′ 0″ W). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time

We also claim that William Willett (a Brit) invented daylight saving. Wikipedia claims otherwise.

[Bob S.]

We also claim that William Willett (a Brit) invented daylight saving. Wikipedia claims otherwise.

I would call it taking the blame. There are plenty that hate it.

Bob S.

[Citroen]

We also claim that William Willett (a Brit) invented daylight saving. Wikipedia claims otherwise.

I would call it taking the blame. There are plenty that hate it.

Bob S.

I tend to agree with that sentiment.

If we have to stick with DST, then I'd like us to switch to double summer time (gmt+2) and move winter time one hour ahead (gmt+1). That would align the UK with Central European Time (CET/CEST). The bonus would sunrise after 5am but daylight until 11pm in the middle of June, just like they get in North West France (Brittany/Normandy) which would give us more usable daylight all year round (so more cycling time trials in the evenings). There's folks in Scotland who really don't like that idea, so they can have their own timezone (SCST and SCDT). Or perhaps the whole UK should go to gmt+1h30 and ditch DST.

[icomefrombirmingham]

None of this stops the French having there own 0 meridian line in Paris.