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Start Times

Mar 26th 2009

Here are the start times for the October 24 2009 read-a-thon:

-12 (Midway Islands): 1am

-11 (Hawaii): 2am

-10 (Gambier Islands): 3am

-9 (Alaska): 4am

-8 (LA, Seattle, Vancouver): 5am

-7 (Denver, Edmonton): 6am

-6 (Chicago, Houston): 7am

-5 (New York, Toronto, Port of Spain): 8am

-4 (Asuncion, Santiago, Buenos Aires): 9am

-3 (São Paulo, Montevideo): 10am

-2 (Cape Verde): 11am

-1 (Azores, Reykjavik): 12pm

0 (London, Lisbon): 1pm

+1 (Madrid, Paris, Amsterdan, Berlin, Rome, Jerusalem): 2pm

+2 (Athens, Helsinki): 3pm

+3 (Moscow, Dubai, Georgia): 4pm

+4 (Armenia, Maldives, Samara): 5pm

+4:30 (Mumbai): 5:30pm

+5 (Pakistan, Yekaterinburg): 6pm

+6 (Bangkok, Java, Hanoi, Omsk): 7pm

+7 (Beijing, Perth, Singapore, Kuala Lumphur, Manila): 8pm

+8 (Tokyo): 9pm

+9 (Brisbane): 10pm

+10 (Sydney, Vladivostok): 11pm

+11 (Fiji): 12am

+12 (Auckland, Tonga):1am

These were hard to calculate, as different places in the same time zone do or do not have daylight saving times. So if you happen to spot any mistakes, please let us know!

ETA: To avoid confusion, I removed the “GMT”s. Due to daylight saving times, they can lead to misunderstandings. Hopefully the numbers and the locations used as examples will allow everyone to figure out what their starting time is, but if in doubt, don’t hesitate to let us know.

Also ETA: You can download this spreadsheet that has the start times and the corresponding hours.

A note for our European participants: Many of you will be switching your clocks back one hour at 1am on Sunday, so you’ll finished the  read-a-thon, 24 hours later, one hour earlier than you began it. Since the read-a-thon is organized by hour numbers, this will hopefully cause no confusion.

15 Comments »

15 Responses to “Start Times”

  1. Fran @ Dear Meon 05 Apr 2009 at 7:22 am 1

    Manila, Philippines is GMT +8, not GMT +7. :)

  2. Nymethon 06 Apr 2009 at 12:34 pm 2

    I knew I had to have messed up somewhere. Thank you, Fran :P

  3. blacklinon 09 Apr 2009 at 3:12 pm 3

    Wow. I was way off on what I thought my start time would be. Thanks for posting the list. I have next week off so this will be a great way to finish off “vacation.”

  4. Debion 10 Apr 2009 at 3:54 am 4

    Thanks for this!!! I swear, figuring out the right start time has always been the hardest part of participating in the read-a-thon. Well, maybe staying awake during those hours between 3 and 5 am may be slightly harder…

  5. Nymethon 10 Apr 2009 at 3:13 pm 5

    Fran,

    Turns out that even though you’re right about Manila being GMT+8, due to daylight saving times Manila is currently 7 hours ahead of Greenwich time, not 8. So the Read-a-thon will start at 8pm for you, not 9.

    blacklin, where are you? I hope I’m not the one who’s off :P

    Debi, those hours are the worst!

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  7. Careon 14 Apr 2009 at 3:30 pm 7

    this is AWESOME!

  8. Alaineon 15 Apr 2009 at 10:06 pm 8

    Hi, I live in Brisbane Australia and want to participate this year. My friends and I think that finishing at 10pm on Sunday night after an all nighter on Saturday night and having to go to work on Monday would be a little to much.

    So we’d like to start ours at around 10am on Saturday, which is 10 ours earlier than your start time. It means we will only be reading the same time as you for 12 hours. But we are fine with that, are you?

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  12. Patrickon 09 Oct 2009 at 8:07 am 12

    Maybe I’m going crazy, but I really think you need to re-check your starting times. On October 24, the US will still be on daylight time and I’m almost positive that means the Eastern US (where I live) will be four hours behind GMT, not five.

  13. Nymethon 09 Oct 2009 at 8:55 am 13

    Patrick, you’re not going crazy. I have re-checked them, and the problem is that Daylight Saving Times will end on the 25th in Europe – during the read-a-thon itself. But on the 24th, at the time it starts, the difference between us will still be five hours. I removed the “GMTs” from the post exactly because I was hoping to avoid this sort of confusion. London and Lisbon are currently one hour ahead of GMT time, so the “+0″ on the schedule corresponds to geographical areas that are usually GMT, but not to GMT time itself. That’s why the read-a-thon will start at 1pm and not at noon there. If we were having it even just a day later, it WOULD start at noon.

    Thank you for pointing out that this is potentially confusing, though – we’ll be sure to put up a note explaining about the time chance that will take place during the read-a-thon itself. We didn’t realize when we picked that weekend that the two coincided!

  14. Melissa Con 21 Oct 2009 at 12:29 pm 14

    Erm, I am no good at time zone conversions lol. What time does CST (Alabama) start? 7am?

  15. Sugandhaon 23 Oct 2009 at 6:44 am 15

    Thanks for this.. now I know I have to start at 5:30 :)

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