Quote from: Michail1 on May 07, 2017, 05:25:41 PM

Quote from: HabBear on May 07, 2017, 03:08:53 PM

Today MDT is -7 hours from UTC. On Nov. 6th of this year MDT will be -6 from UTC.

Uhh, no.

DST = Daylight Savings Time. It started on Mar 12th. So, we are in xDT time zones.

PDT (Pacific) is currently -7
MDT (Mountain) is currently -6
CDT (Central) is currently -5
EDT (Eastern) is currently -4

On November 5th, we go to Standard Time zones ( xST)

PST -8
MST -7
CST -6
EST -5

Current UTC time is (with Pacific and Mountain examples):
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20170507T170000&p1=1440&p2=234&p3=220

Theory and reasons for DST:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

And to clear up a confusion your computer might display.... When you go to clock to enter your time zone, it will show you Standard Time (PST for example for Pacific), but will either have a checkbox for observing daylight savings or simply do it for you based on the calendar date but will tell you that it is currently observing this change. Yes, Windows has a checkbox asking if you're in a DST zone. There are very few places that have an exception to the DST rule (like Arizona).

Term: Spring forward / Fall back
In November, it is fall. So, the clocks will fall back (extra hour of sleep). So, for MDT -6, it will change to MST -7
PDT -7 will go to PST -8

(edit: confirmation. Bitcointalk is on UTC. Time of my post was 5:27PM; however, I am in PDT -7, so it is 10:27AM right now)

This hurts my head

wouldn't it be better to just use Countdown Timer