Whats GMT?
A. It’s the time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. It’s used as a standard time around the world. (That’s right–they can’t figure out how to make a local phone call, but we use them for a worldwide standard time reference. Go figure.) Q. OK. How do I figure out what the UTC time was? This happened to me at 8:02 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. A. I’m not going to go into time conversion here, but an easy way for you to find out would be to double-click on your clock and click the Time Zone tab. You see where it says “(GMT-08:00 Pacific Time (US & Canada)?” Q. Yeah. A. That means you’re 8 hours behind GMT. Your local time is GMT minus 8 hours. That means that to convert your local time into GMT, you need to add 8 hours. Something else you should know–GMT doesn’t change with daylight savings time. To convert Pacific Daylight Time to GMT, only add 7 hours. Q. But if I add 8 hours to 8:02 p.m., that gives me 4:02 a.m. THE NEXT DAY! A. Way to go, Einstein. You’re going to have to
