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echo: aviation
to: ULF KUESSNER
from: JIM SANDERS
date: 1998-03-28 12:44:00
subject: Re: news-092

ULF,
     In a message dated 03-22-98 you wrote ...
> Hallo Jim,
>
> Tuesday March 17 1998 21:18, Jim Sanders schrieb an All:
>
>  JS>  departed Seattle's Boeing Field at 4:26 p.m. PST (0026 Universal
>  JS>  Takeoff Time), Tuesday, March 10 and arrived in Berlin at 10:53
> a.m.
>  JS>  local time (1053 UTC) Wednesday, March 11. The 9 hour 27 minute
>
> Would you do me a favor and check the times again? Calculating the UTC's
> this would make 10 hours. Now since I live in Berlin im quite certain we
> do not have UTC as local time. It's UTC +1. So if the local time was
> correctly given, everything else would make sense... Well, now that I
> figured that out, you probably don't need to check it up... ;-)
    The News Media often gets screwed up when converting time
 zones and such.... As with many things.  10:53 Berlin Local time
 would be 9:53 UTC which is 9 hours and 27 minutes... :)
 You hit it...
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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