A380 First Flight 4/27 @ 8:30 GMT

[yasir1212]

The first flight of the A380 is scheduled for tomorrow 4/27 at 8:30 GMT....

[font=ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva][font=ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva][font=Verdana,Helvetica,Arial][size=-1][font=ARIAL,] Pacific Time Zone: 1:30AM

Mountain Time Zone: 2:30AM

Central Time Zone: 3:30AM

Eastern Time Zone: 4:30AM

Here's the source:

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2075492/

You can get your local time from here:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=4&day=27&year=2005&p1=224&p2=179&p3=195&p4=102





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[El Cóndor]

Thanks !!! I was looking for the exact time of the flight on the Airbus website but came up empty. Does anybody know if the major news channels are going to broadcast the event live??

 

[OneBadLT123]

Thanks !!! I was looking for the exact time of the flight on the Airbus website but came up empty. Does anybody know if the major news channels are going to broadcast the event live??

I also am wondering, I will most likley be awake because i have a final paper due tomorrow. And i really would love to see it

 

[mattpilot]

The first flight of the A380 is scheduled for tomorrow 4/27 at 8:30 GMT....

[font=ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva][font=ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva][font=Verdana,Helvetica,Arial][size=-1][font=ARIAL,]Pacific Time Zone: 1:30AM

Mountain Time Zone: 2:30AM

Central Time Zone: 3:30AM

Eastern Time Zone: 4:30AM

Here's the source:

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/general_aviation/read.main/2075492/

You can get your local time from here:

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=4&day=27&year=2005&p1=224&p2=179&p3=195&p4=102





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HOLD ON A SEC:

If its GMT you are talking about, you got your times wrong. If on the other hand, if you are talking about ZULU time, you DO have your times right.

ZULU and GMT are only the same during standard time. Since we have Daylight time, they are not.

GMT is +1 to ZULU during daylight savings.

Which is it?


**edit: nevermind .. i looked over the links posted - something i should of done earlier. The poster is infact talking about zulu, not gmt. So the posted times are correct. sorry

 

[Pilot124]

Who cares!!!!!!!!!!!! It's an airbus

 

[El Cóndor]

Double check that mattpilot ! GMT (aka UTC) and Zulu time are ALWAYS the same, as they refer to the same 0 degree longitude meridian (also called Prime Meridian). See this for a simple explanation:

http://www.spacearchive.info/utc.htm

Yasir1212 time conversions are right . . . which means that IF the flight happens as scheduled, it will be sometime in the middle of the friggin' night AAARGGGHH.

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

HOLD ON A SEC:

If its GMT you are talking about, you got your times wrong. If on the other hand, if you are talking about ZULU time, you DO have your times right.

ZULU and GMT are only the same during standard time. Since we have Daylight time, they are not.

GMT is +1 to ZULU during daylight savings.

Which is it?


**edit: nevermind .. i looked over the links posted - something i should of done earlier. The poster is infact talking about zulu, not gmt. So the posted times are correct. sorry

http://members.fortunecity.com/wavjunky/swl-r/ryousure.wav

 

[mattpilot]

Double check that mattpilot ! GMT (aka UTC) and Zulu time are ALWAYS the same, as they refer to the same 0 degree longitude meridian (also called Prime Meridian). See this for a simple explanation:

http://www.spacearchive.info/utc.htm

Yasir1212 time conversions are right . . . which means that IF the flight happens as scheduled, it will be sometime in the middle of the friggin' night AAARGGGHH.

UTC = Zulu ..

GMT is greenwhich mean time. Just like any other time zone. I don't know if you ever lived in europe, but i'm european, and i can tell you that GMT moves just as much as any other time zone during day light savings.

Confusing GMT with Zulu or UTC is a common mistake that many, even professionals, make. Yes, it is the same during standard time. But if you live in britain, which uses GMT, they also change their clocks. So suddenly all their times change to UTC+1.

If GMT would remain the same as UTC, then either A) britains (and others in their time zone) don't change clocks during daylight savings (which we know it does), or B) UTC also changes during daylight saving. In that case, UTC would be pointless, since it was created to avoid such type of time confusion.

 

[profile]

Matt

You are incorrect. GMT is just the older name for UTC. The UK timezone is either BST or GMT, depending on the season. In summer, they use British Summer Time (BST), in the winter they stick to the old name of UTC and use GMT. GMT does not change with the season.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/bst2.htm

 

[El Cóndor]

Gmt

UTC = Zulu ..

GMT is greenwhich mean time. Just like any other time zone. I don't know if you ever lived in europe, but i'm european, and i can tell you that GMT moves just as much as any other time zone during day light savings.

Confusing GMT with Zulu or UTC is a common mistake that many, even professionals, make. Yes, it is the same during standard time. But if you live in britain, which uses GMT, they also change their clocks. So suddenly all their times change to UTC+1.

If GMT would remain the same as UTC, then either A) britains (and others in their time zone) don't change clocks during daylight savings (which we know it does), or B) UTC also changes during daylight saving. In that case, UTC would be pointless, since it was created to avoid such type of time confusion.

Once again . . . GMT is a former name for UTC (also known as Zulu) and it NEVER changes . . . you can think of it as the daddy of all time zones. As Profile mentioned, British folks use BST (GMT + 1) in the summer, and in the winter they go back to UTC (GMT + 0) which is the same as good ole' GMT .