🚀 go-pugleaf

"db" <nospam@be-atch.com> wrote in
news:3f008ab7$0$963$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com: 

> hAiNeSy wrote:
>> {AGUT2}MeltDown <meltdownUSE@YOURunrealtower.imagination.org> wrote
>> in news:slrnbfvpeg.1lb.meltdownUSE@sybren.thirdtower.com:
>>
>>> Flossie enlightened us with:
>>>> It was a little dissapointing to be honest, only 5 AGUT`ers turned
>>>> up at the time 19:00 GMT.
>>>
>>> Sorry, was at my parent's for a nice long weekend...
>>>
>>>> Meltdown, I love that Catch The Chicken mutator..
>>>
>>> Thanx! I'll try to get some more work done for it this weekend. I
>>> found a bug where the chicken "locks up" when you're loading
>>> multiple rockets with your RL at the moment you pick up the chicken.
>>> And then there is the rather crappy bot support, which has improved
>>> a lot already, but still is crap.
>>>
>>>> Why not arrange the next one for say 20:00, instead of 19:00.
>>>
>>> Good time. That'll be 21:00 CEST, which is just fine for me.
>>
>> No it isn't. It's 22:00. CEST=GMT+2
> 
> Talk about pedantic.
> 
> When somehere refers to gmt they are probably talking about uk time..
> if you are talking about euro time  you are uk time + one hour.

Then the term "UK time" comes into use.

> No one would have got confused and your statement (although probably
> true) will only confuse.

If someone didn't know what time it was in GMT, they might have searched 
for it on the web, and would be an hour late.

-- 
Hainesy
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I blame Blueyonder.