time zones clock

catalina66

Hi :-)

I am always confused by time zones ... a site does a webcast in Chicago at 9p.m. on Mondays ... the information on their site says UK participants need to tune in at 12 midnight, but everything else I'm reading says that area is EST and -5, therefore surely I should be logging in at 4 pm! I'm trying to find a freeware time zone clock that does all the sums, as my brain is going to mush with anything where I need to find zones out, sort out DST etc!

Many thanks, Cat

weegie.geek

Google's good for this stuff.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=time+in+chicago

SoozyJ22

At the moment the clocks in north american have gone forwards an hour for summer but ours haven't so EST is only 4 hours behind. However, there are some places that don't do DST so you have to take that into account as well (I have no idea if Chicago does DST or not). If the time difference is 4 hours you need to listen at 1am the next day, if it's 5 hours you need to listen at 2am the next day.

fox2319

Chicago is normally 6 hours behind though. At the moment it's only 5 (trust me, I was there on Thursday). If the webcast starts at 9pm there, that will be 2am next day here, i.e. GMT -5 means they are 5 hours behind us.

catalina66

Many thanks for such quick and helpful replies. Really appreciate it. Will tune in at 2 a.m. Tuesday!
Thanks, Cat

PS On travels, found http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=64

knightstyle

I used to use the timeanddate but now I have updated my Mac I have an Ikon called Dashboard which can be set to give clocks from around the world plus weather and probably lots more.

catalina66

knightstyle wrote: »

I used to use the timeanddate but now I have updated my Mac I have an Ikon called Dashboard which can be set to give clocks from around the world plus weather and probably lots more.

Looks great :beer: (Thought there might be a PC version too, so on travels noticed it has poker, 4-leaf clover Zen game, allsorts!) Cheers, Cat