In a message dated 01-15-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Ed,

EV> I still am about one week behind in reading the messages in all of
EV> the echos that come in my .QWK packet when I grab one.

OK

EV> I was alternating between taking time to reading some BBS messages
EV> and then taking some time to read what has came in my Email In-box.

I'm not subscribing to very many echoes going through my Fido box so it
makes things easier neither do I subscribe to anything else but ham
radio on the internet. The latter is however on the back burner due to
changes my ISP made of what kind of incoming calls it will support.

EV> I looked on a map to see what Time Zone You were in and I'd say it's
EV> UTC+2, here I am in UTC-5.

That is correct.

EV> I've been thinking about You using UTC and figured it is almost like
EV> You setting the Clocks to Daylight Savings Time, since Your QTH is
EV> two hours ahead of UTC. Remember I said 'Almost Like'.

When using UTC there's no DST change and most hams use UTC in their log
books. That makes it easy to check the correct date/time when QSL'ing.

EV> I just never used UTC if hardly ever at all after I left the
EV> Service. Local Time is what I've always been confortable with and
EV> what works for You  being in a Time Zone very close to UTC doesn't
EV> work for me.

The closeness to UTC doesn't figure in my choice, see above. Almost
every US ham I've worked uses UTC, at least when writing the QSL's.

Also all air traffic control and merchant ships use UTC. Think about the
chaos that would be created when the crew is turning in/out each 4th hour
if the ship would be using local time zones during a distant voyage.

EV> 73 es tks for trying to help this old guy out.

Stop calling yourself old guy in the company of the fellows in this echo

73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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