g1smd - 7:34 pm on Oct 28, 2002 (gmt 0)

If anyone here designs software with time zones in, please refer to the BASE time zone as UTC, not as GMT.

The UK uses GMT in the Winter (UTC+0000) and BST in the Summer (UTC+0100). It is far too tempting for people outside the UK to assume that UK time = GMT time all year round, when in actual fact this is only true from the End of October to the End of April. In Summer the UK clocks do not show GMT (UTC+0000), but a time that is one hour ahead (UTC+0100), known as BST.

One other reason that NZ people have trouble with forum software is that some do not allow a setting of +1300 hours, which some places sometimes have. Even for some places that have +1200 times, if the server has been incorrectly set by one hour, the +1300 setting would be required to make the time 'look right' (even though it is really the server that should be corrected).