Poll: What timezone are you in?

33 points·s-phi-nl··11 comments

Please use standard time in giving your answer. For example, my clocks are currently set to UTC-4 for United States Eastern Daylight Time, but I picked UTC-5. Also, if any of you are from timezones not listed, please leave a comment: the only +:30 timezone I put in is +5:30 for India.

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Timezones are more than UTC offsets. If only it were that simple. The model might work in the US with about 4 timezones, where summertime changes on the same dates. But some places don't observe summertime, some change on different dates than others, where I am it's not even summer right now, it's winter, and so on.

You can have the same UTC offset as someone else on a certain date, but still be in a different timezone.

Something every programmer doing something involving time zones should think about IMO.

I wrote about it here: http://creativedeletion.com/2008/04/10/world-time-is-more-th...

I'd locate myself in UTC++ as I'm effectively cycling through them over the course of a month.

I'm in Adelaide, South Australia UTC+09:30 (although currently UTC+10:30 DST). I voted for UTC+10.

I'm thinking most people that responded UTC-8 are actually UTC-7 currently due to DST...

The instructions said to disregard daylight saving time when voting.

Now I want to know who else is living in UTC-10 (who else is living in Hawaii!)

Will be interesting to see how the results shift over the course of a day. I'm in the early stages of my work day (9am Tuesday), so most of Europe is currently in bed.

FYI: Current votes at 00:04 GMT

UTC-8 4 points

UTC-5 3 points

UTC-4 1 point

UTC (Greenwich) 1 point (me)

UTC+1 2 points

It'll be interesting to see how many weird time zones get added. A friend of mine lives in UTC+12:45.

Given the average duration of a post here it will be pretty influenced by post time.

+1 for UTC+12

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