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Old 18 November 2012, 07:36 AM   #1
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what do you set your gmt at?
just curious... do you set it at gmt? or a different time zone where family lives etc?
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Old 18 November 2012, 07:37 AM   #2
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I don't have a GMT. :(

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Old 18 November 2012, 07:47 AM   #3
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24 Hour hand = Home time
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Old 18 November 2012, 05:32 PM   #4
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24 Hour hand = Home time
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Old 18 November 2012, 07:55 AM   #5
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Usually at GMT time.
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Old 18 November 2012, 08:05 AM   #6
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24 hour to local time.
Then use the hour hand jump feature to move with me while traveling, thus leaving the 24 hour hand for easy reference of home!!

There is no right or wrong however, so set it how or what you want it to display.
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Old 18 November 2012, 08:17 AM   #7
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Manila time...
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Old 18 November 2012, 08:22 AM   #8
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Old 18 November 2012, 08:29 AM   #9
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UTC as pilot weather briefings and other things I deal with come as UTC.
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Old 18 November 2012, 11:06 AM   #10
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UTC as pilot weather briefings and other things I deal with come as UTC.
This
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Old 18 November 2012, 11:08 AM   #11
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24 Hour hand = Home time
This is what I do as well.
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Old 18 November 2012, 08:34 AM   #12
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Home is where the heart is!

And plus I don't travel much.

Actually I don't travel at all. :(
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Old 18 November 2012, 08:44 AM   #13
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Mine is set to GMT. I deal a lot with London.
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Old 19 November 2012, 12:44 AM   #14
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Mine is set to GMT. I deal a lot with London.
You're in for a surprise then when they are at BST half of the year...

Remember, you actually change the time zone when you go to/from daylight savings time, so London will be in WET(GMT, UTC) in the winter and in WEST(BST, CET) in the summer. Of course, the central parts of Europe will go from CET to CEST in the summer.

The timezone abbreviations are only aliases for UTC+/- some time. UTC+1 is called CET in Berlin and BST in London.


Oh, regarding the half hour time zones, Katmandu has a 45 minute offset from nearest hour, that is even harder to dial in on a modern GMT watch.

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Old 18 November 2012, 08:57 AM   #15
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Home time. I travel extensively across Time Zones.
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Old 18 November 2012, 09:03 AM   #16
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Zulu time. Air traffic control world functions on Zulu
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Old 18 November 2012, 09:06 AM   #17
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24 hr hand set to GMT.
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Old 18 November 2012, 09:35 AM   #18
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I set mine to Vegas time..........I like to go to Vegas
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Old 18 November 2012, 10:47 AM   #19
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I set mine to Vegas time..........I like to go to Vegas
If I had one, this is what I would do, not Vegas but to the time of where I would like to be... right now that would be Honolulu time.
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Old 18 November 2012, 01:55 PM   #20
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I set mine to Vegas time..........I like to go to Vegas
Me too. Always looking to get back.
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Old 18 November 2012, 10:30 AM   #21
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home time.
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Old 18 November 2012, 12:21 PM   #22
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home time.
that would be eastern time right?
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Old 18 November 2012, 12:34 PM   #23
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that would be eastern time right?
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Old 18 November 2012, 10:34 AM   #24
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Old 18 November 2012, 10:49 AM   #25
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GMT (or 'Zulu' for you military folk) of course :)
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Old 18 November 2012, 10:52 AM   #26
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I try to set mine to the correct time.. ;)
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Old 18 November 2012, 10:58 AM   #27
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Zulu time!
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Old 18 November 2012, 11:00 AM   #28
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24 hour hand set to French time, the other to home time in Canada. When I am in France, the quick jump moves to French time, the bezel rotates to indicate Quebec time on the 24 hour hand.

Isn't GMT = UTC = Zulu?
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Old 18 November 2012, 11:19 AM   #29
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I'm unfortunate in the fact that I live in a GMT +9 1/2 time zone
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Old 18 November 2012, 12:32 PM   #30
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I'm unfortunate in the fact that I live in a GMT +9 1/2 time zone
The bezel free rotates to compensate for that
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