Comments on: Start Times

By: Sugandha

Sugandha — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:44:11 +0000

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

By: Melissa C

Melissa C — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:29:28 +0000

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

By: Nymeth

Nymeth — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:55:21 +0000

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!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:07:10 +0000

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.

By: Dewey’s Read-a-Thon » October 2009 Read-a-thon Sign-up post

Dewey’s Read-a-Thon » October 2009 Read-a-thon Sign-up post — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:22:50 +0000

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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:00:35 +0000

[...] savings confuse me (we don’t need to save daylight here, ha), so I’ll just follow this page which lists the start times. If I stay up the whole time, I’d be up 36 hours — I got up [...]

By: Dewey’s Read-a-Thon » Getting ready for the April 2009 read-a-thon

Dewey’s Read-a-Thon » Getting ready for the April 2009 read-a-thon — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:13:40 +0000

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By: Alaine

Alaine — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:06:29 +0000

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?

By: Care

Care — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:30:40 +0000

this is AWESOME!

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Sunday Salon and Mailbox Monday | Books of Mee — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:28:16 +0000

[...] Dewey’s 24 hour Read-a-thon? It’s happening on this Saturday 18 April 2009. Looking at the start times it’s gonna start at 10pm in Sydney. So I might sleep for some time in the good first 12 hours [...]