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N8OXQ

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Local or UTC?
« on: September 08, 2021, 06:26:14 PM »

Our club is participating in the Ohio Parks on the Air this Saturday. It will be our first using logging software. Do we use local time or UTC? Thanks
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ZL1BBW

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Re: Local or UTC?
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2021, 07:56:24 PM »

UTC absolutely, then if you upload to LOTW it will all match.
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N2EY

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Re: Local or UTC?
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2021, 08:11:57 PM »

UTC.
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KE8G

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Re: Local or UTC?
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2021, 08:35:11 PM »

Always UTC, any logging, be it contesting or rag chewing should be logged in UTC, that is the World time standard.

73 de Jim - KE8G
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K0UA

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Re: Local or UTC?
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2021, 08:55:53 PM »

I know of no reason to ever use local time for any kind of logging ever. Local time has no meaning. Daylight savings time or not, what time zone, etc. It is just a mess.
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73  James K0UA

KC0W

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Re: Local or UTC?
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2021, 09:16:31 PM »

 A serious question……..

 When one person correctly answers a question why do a bunch of other people feel the need to give the same exact answer?

        Thanks,

    Tom KH0/KC0W
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K0UA

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Re: Local or UTC?
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2021, 09:34:25 PM »

A serious question……..

 When one person correctly answers a question why do a bunch of other people feel the need to give the same exact answer?

        Thanks,

    Tom KH0/KC0W

Because one person with the correct answer is not a consensus. Not even 2 or 3 people, because there could be a dozen behind them with the opposite answer. But if nearly everyone gives the same answer the OP gets the idea that there is truly a consensus. 
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73  James K0UA

VK6HP

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Re: Local or UTC?
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2021, 02:14:05 AM »

Tom,

I don't know either.  It doesn't get any more correct for the re-telling!  I guess it's kind of like answer shopping in reverse.

What does amuse me are the threads in which the correct answer appears in (say) post #2, then the signal-to-noise ratio gets progressively degraded by subsequent rubbish :)

73, Peter.
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ZL1BBW

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Re: Local or UTC?
« Reply #8 on: September 09, 2021, 02:29:34 AM »

Whenm I first got back on the air from ZL, I had the time and the date all screwed up for about 100 contacts, luckily I got one contact to tell me the time UTC/date he had in his log, so I then applied the same correction to them all, and suddenly it was all good.

Its a funny old thing that date line.

Cheers Gavin
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WS9K

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Re: Local or UTC?
« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2021, 05:26:52 PM »


UTC all the things

My coffee maker is set to UTC

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