Don't miss any of the thrills and excitement of the HU online virtual pub/social meeting, Sunday, September 20, 6 PM Greenwich Mean Time.

[MBAnderson]

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.)

marc

[Spottedtowhee]

Hi Marc

How do I send you a private message?

[MBAnderson in reply to Spottedtowhee]

Click on my picture, while at my profile, go to the message link in the upper right-hand corner and click message.

[park_bear]

Here is a web link that automatically handles the time conversions:

worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&li...

[MBAnderson in reply to park_bear]

that's simple enough

[park_bear in reply to MBAnderson]

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.

[MBAnderson in reply to park_bear]

Can you look at it and tell what time zone would cover California 10 AM and Finland by 8 PM? I think it may be 4 PM or 5 PM GMT?

[MBAnderson in reply to MBAnderson]

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?

[park_bear in reply to MBAnderson]

Here is the link for 7 PM London BST. Choice is up to you:

worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&li...

[MBAnderson in reply to park_bear]

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.

[park_bear in reply to MBAnderson]

You can call it 6 PM GMT or 7 PM London BST - either way should yield the same result. See also my comment now at the bottom of the page.

[ElliotGreen in reply to MBAnderson]

Personally, I'd prefer 10 AM California time (Pacific) which is 6 PM London time.

If you make it 6 PM GMT +1 (7 PM in the UK) I will have to leave early every time I attend, because I've got a standing engagement at 7:30 every week.

But obviously there's more people than just me to consider. So if you keep at this time, I will live.

I mixed. I'm disappointed, but obviously you have already publicized the time.

[Wonky-Bride in reply to ElliotGreen]

it’s not long until the clocks go back an hour in the UK

[ElliotGreen in reply to Wonky-Bride]

And then they go back in the US, a few weeks after.

[WinnieThePoo]

6pm GMT will be 7pm BST (the time in London of your virtual pub). It'll be 8pm for me in France.

This time.🙂

[MBAnderson in reply to WinnieThePoo]

Thanks. You don't go to bed for another hour, tho?

[WinnieThePoo in reply to MBAnderson]

I'm usually still in the pool at this time of year at 8pm local time 🙂

[Astra7]

3am for me!!

[MBAnderson in reply to Astra7]

Ugh. next time.

[Jennyjenny2 in reply to Astra7]

Me too ! 😞

[LAJ12345 in reply to Astra7]

Where are you? It’s 10am for me in New Zealand I think? Are you very west?

Oops, just checked a different site, it’s 6am. The first site I used said 10am!

[MBAnderson in reply to LAJ12345]

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.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...

[Astra7 in reply to LAJ12345]

I’m in Perth WA.

[bassofspades]

2pm est?

[MBAnderson in reply to bassofspades]

Base, correct. East Coast USA is GMT -5h, allowing for DST, add 1 hour.

[AmyLindy in reply to MBAnderson]

OK I’m w BASS on EST@1400 (North Carolina, USA)

[LAJ12345]

Ah good that’s an easier time for me😊

**Oops, just checked a different site, it’s 6am. The first site I used said 10am!

[MBAnderson]

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.

marc

[MBAnderson in reply to MBAnderson]

PS.

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.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...

[AmyLindy]

I’m in. Sent email address to u. Talk to y’all next week. Zoom?

[bassofspades]

Well I I'm getting pretty excited about this!

[MBAnderson in reply to bassofspades]

should be fun

[MBAnderson]

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.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...

Or, use park_bear's link

healthunlocked.com/api/redi...

[park_bear]

At this link:

timezoneconverter.com/cgi-b...

Select "use the following date and time " and then enter September 20, 6 PM.

Leave the "from" time zone at the default of GMT.

Then select your continent and city from the pulldown of the "to" time zones. Scroll to the bottom for the US time zones.

This will give the correct local time for any location on earth.

[Grumpy77]

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