PDT TimeFollow

Ok, I get asked this a lot from my real life friends, "When is PDT time?" or "How do I convert PDT time to EST time?"

Well, first, PDT is Pacific Daylight Time. Outside of the daylight savings period, it is PST, Pacific Standard Time. It is displayed in militarty time, and is synchronized with the military and global standards. It is 3:15pm as I write this. In military time it is 1515 hours. If the number is greater than 1259, subtract 1200 from the current number and you have the time. Therefore, 1300 hours is 1 o'clock. That part is easy, almost everyone should know that.

PDT time is, again, in the Pacific. California and Washington lie on that timezone completely. Every shift across the timezone to the right you add one hour. I am in college in Connecticut. It is, as I said, 3:15 as I write this, aka 1515 hours. In PDT time, it is 1215 hours. If by some tradegy you don't know what your timezone is, like my friends, here is a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone

Lastly, if you would rather click a link and find out PDT:
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Pacific/d/-8/java
It will even tell you if the sun is outside your door. (Another fact I find not a large amount of people know off hand: the sun moves to the left on the map.)

Again, most everyone on these boards probably knows this. However, the amount of people who have come up to me these past few updates and asked me "Is PDT the time in Japan?", "I heard it was in Russia so it would be either," "Is that some made up system?" has driven me to write this (and also partly insane).

I'm also writing this in a hurry, so if there is a factual inaccuracy tell me, I'll fix it in a jiffy.

EDIT: Oh, by the way: 1300 PDT is 4:00pm, 20 minutes after this edit. So you should be able to get back on and have some fun then. ^^v

Edited, Thu Oct 27 15:58:13 2005 by OrionMinor

Summary:
PDT == MDT - 1 == CDT - 2 == EDT - 3