British Summertime, Universal Time??????

[M4lcs67]

Sorry to be repeating what other people have asked before, but I cannot find the answer.

In my Nexstar mount, in order to input the correct info for daylight saving and/or summertime or universal time which one should I be putting into my controller to give me the right information for now?????

[Stephen]

Right now it is daylight savings

Alternatively, it is UTC is now minus one hour.

[Cornelius Varley]

Put in the current time (BST) and then select DST (daylight savings time) when asked.

Peter

[M4lcs67]

Thanks muchly, chaps. What would I do without you? Probably would be lurching from one astronomical crisis to another.

[Auntystatic]

Right now it is daylight savings

Alternatively, it is UTC is now minus one hour.

Its actually GMT/UTC plus 1 hour for British summer time not minus.

Do what Peter said

[Stephen]

Its actually GMT/UTC plus 1 hour for British summer time not minus.

Do what Peter said

(Edit) Actually, I think my original statement was OK if you read it again I said UTC is BST -1?

[garethmob]

i always assumed GMT is the standered time at grenwitch BST is GMT+1?

and UTC was BST +1? or is it im too tired at present and should go to bed?

[E621Keith]

I think BST is GMT-1 (one hr fast). UTC is almost exactly the same as GMT.

[Stephen]

GMT = UTC

BST = GMT + 1

[Carbon Brush]

I'm a bit dim about calculating all this clock shifitng.

I leave my mount and obsy computer on GMT all year round.

So much easier.

Was that actually BWT (British winter time) or UTC?

Wonder if one day the govt might wake up to the radical idea of not shifting clocks?

[E621Keith]

UTC and GMT is almost the same (GMT doesn't have sub second levels, while UTC does).

The government is discussing about not shifting clock, but not the way we want it. There were some discussions about using BST all year round.

[garethmob]

And shifting clocks 2 hours forward for us to be the same as europe

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[Mr TamiyaCowboy]

March to October you will use " DayLight Saving Time "

October to march you will use " UTC "