What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
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What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
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Re: What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
#2It's weird that the author chooses Iceland as an example of a GMT+0 country, rather than Britain which is where Greenwich is.
Re: What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
#3It's weird that the author chooses Iceland as an example of a GMT+0 country, rather than Britain which is where Greenwich is.
Unlike Britain, Iceland does not have Daylight Saving Time, and therefore is GMT+0 throughout the year.
Re: What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
#4I find it somewhat interesting that when SpaceX's streams switch to views with burned-in timecode it is always in UTC.
Edit: and usually in ISO8601-ish format
Re: What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
#5It's weird that the author chooses Iceland as an example of a GMT+0 country, rather than Britain which is where Greenwich is.
i read somewhere that some people may not like referring to britain as the default 'reference point' for timezones due to political/cultural reasons of their country. personally i dont have an issue with it, and i'm not saying that's the case here, maybe the author just likes iceland?
Re: What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
#6It's weird that the author chooses Iceland as an example of a GMT+0 country, rather than Britain which is where Greenwich is.
Unlike Britain, Iceland does not have Daylight Saving Time, and therefore is GMT+0 throughout the year.
Precisely. GMT does not change with Summer time, though the time in Greenwich (and teh rest of the UK) does. [0]
[0] https://greenwichmeantime.com/uk/time/british-summer-time/
Re: What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
#7It's weird that the author chooses Iceland as an example of a GMT+0 country, rather than Britain which is where Greenwich is.
i read somewhere that some people may not like referring to britain as the default 'reference point' for timezones due to political/cultural reasons of their country. personally i dont have an issue with it, and i'm not saying that's the case here, maybe the author just likes iceland?
The UK developed the first portable timepiece good enough to accurately tell longitude. It's theirs.
Re: What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
#8Technically, UTC is a time standard, and GMT is a time zone, so the two, although equal, are not really the same thing. Also, you can set your iPhone to UTC in the World Clock, which I do as an amateur astronomer.
Re: What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
#9It's weird that the author chooses Iceland as an example of a GMT+0 country, rather than Britain which is where Greenwich is.
This is an old article since iOS has added UTC time zone to system settings and clock app.
Android still doesn’t support UTC time zone, and need to use Iceland as hack. Which depends on Iceland not changing their time zone.
Re: What Time Is It on the International Space Station? (2013)
#10It's weird that the author chooses Iceland as an example of a GMT+0 country, rather than Britain which is where Greenwich is.
Unlike Britain, Iceland does not have Daylight Saving Time, and therefore is GMT+0 throughout the year.
The usual mismatch between "London is in GMT+0" and "...in BST"