The original intent was to create an online support group, but as the group may become too large for that, it has been converted to an online virtual pub or social gathering - a chance to put a voice and face to the comments.
If you want to participate, you have to send me your email address in a private message because I have to email you a link. 50 + people have expressed an interest, but only a dozen have sent me their email address so far. (To send me a private message, click on my picture, go to my profile and on the upper right-hand side is the link that says "message.")
As many PWP are socially isolated, which isn’t good, I thought forming online groups might fulfill a need.
Plugging into this meeting might spawn some ideas to set up other/support groups, by geographic location or gender or age or symptom or time of day or subject matter or whatever.
Maybe it turns out that people like the idea of a larger social group, so I will commit to starting an online meeting every Sunday at 6 PM GMT for the foreseeable future.
(Winnie the Poo/Richard points out that GMT is currently on daylight saving time so the time maybe GMT + 1h. (I'll try to figure out how to calibrate that or Poo can explain it.)
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I see that the link already uses BST for London time, which per Winnie the Pooh is different from GMT. If you want a time different than 6 PM London BST I will need to modify the link.
it looks to me like 6 PM GMT +1h is 7 PM and 8 pm for most of Western Europe and 9 PM in Finland and the countries south of it (Egypt Libya and Sudan.) So if 8 p.m. is not too late for Western Europe, maybe we should stick with that?
Okay, I think/hope I got it now. Instead of calling it GMT, we should call it London time and people can calculate the number of time zones they are plus or minus from London time which has British summertime built in.
This way, it eliminates the issues to whether not all other time zones in the world recognize British summertime.
New Zealand is Greenwich Mean Time + 12, but they are currently on daylight savings time so everyone must and one hour or for Sydney Australia you're GMT +13 or 7 AM, I think, I hope.
At the very top edge in the very bottom edge of this map it tells you how many hours to add or subtract.
I believe I have now put everybody's email address into a file. I have reconciled my list twice against my private message list. If you did not get a thank you note for me in your private message box, something is amiss I don't have your email address. So far, we have 26 souls.
Along the top edge and bottom edge of this time zone map it says + or - how many hours away from GMT you are. Do not forget to add one hour because GMT is now on daylight savings time so if for example, your are from the USA East Coast, you are 6 PM GMT -5h or 1 PM, plus the DST hour making your time 2 p.m.
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) (in effect, changing the time zone from UTC+00:00 to UTC+01:00), so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more.
For members who are from other GMT countries but without the summer day light time savings
Since it is UK has virtually jumped to the +1 line without the GMT line moving with the country
GMT never changes. Its longitudinal line and like all longitudinal lines, runs from pole to pole through many countries.
The GMT line passes through Accra in Ghana, which is a country very close to the equator and Ghana doesn't have very long winter dark nights and very short summer nights and so the fact that UK, a country in the northern hemisphere creates BST (GMT + 1) to solve long summer days doesn't mean Ghana, which doesn't need BST would now be imposed with a changeable GMT?? NO
Countries close to the equator are not affected by the Daylight Saving Time created by
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