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Jerez race times error on motogp.com?

Joined Mar 2007
10 Posts | 0+
Brisbane, AU
Hi,
I think there's an error in the race times on the motogp.com site in that the time zone for Spain changes from GMT+1 to GMT+2 (day light saving) on the night of Sat 24 March.
This is especially evident if you use the "Your Time" button, and it seems to have the same time gap to my local time (which has no DST) for both saturday and sunday (which should not be so).
So when I click the "Your Time" button on motogp.com, the races on sunday 25th show up as being an hour later in my timezone than I think they really are.
I've tried to raise this with the motogp.com site contact, but I'm just raising it here in case I'm actually right and anyone gets caught out by it.
Ref:
http://www.statoids.com/tes.html
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=141
Btw: I notice this stuff because of my attempt to do up iCal calendars:
http://www.liveonthe.net/gpcalendars/
Cheers and hope it makes sense for someone! Let me know what you find if you check my math!
Rob
 
hi mate,
the times show up correct for me but im in NSW so im guessing motogp.com are just calculating it off eastern daylight savings time and ignoring the time difference b/t NSW and victoria .. and queensland during the summer.
good work on the calendar
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (K.J. @ Mar 22 2007, 06:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>... correct for me but im in NSW ...
Thanks for having a look. I could switch the timezone on my pc's clock and see how it shows up for other countries to be more thorough. Did that when I was wading through setting up the iCals (well, that was how I entered the dates in local times in the first place) but I could do it again when I see an anomaly I guess.
There's about two other dates that burred up while I was loading them, one in the F1 calendar, and I think all of the errors were arising at the DST changeover times. I'll keep an eye on it and mod the iCal files if reqd.
Good to know someone else has loaded the calendars. Makes it worth putting up all the details. I'd be interested if anyone from an EU or US timezone loads them as to what results you get there - good or bad.
Cheers
Rob
 

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