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Subject: Re: 800-957-9999 works fine
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Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 23:57:07 EST
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Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, the letters are reordered because it is
really a French acronym) is the "new" name for Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT).

This is the local standard time at Greenwich, England, longitude 0
degrees.  Since the United States is in the western hemisphere (well,
most of it anyway), our local times all lag behind UTC:

EDT: UTC - 4 hours
EST & CDT: UTC - 5 hours
CST & MDT: UTC - 6 hours
MST & PDT: UTC - 7 hours
PST: UTC - 8 hours

Therefore, 0000 UTC -> 1700 (5 pm) PDT on the previous day.

Phil