Paul,
You are correct. I hope this will keep everybody
ekse straight on what offset to use.

Thanks
Barre
> The offset for Eastern STANDARD Time is 5 hrs (Nov -
> Mar)
> The offset for Eastern DAYLIGHT Time is 4 hrs (April
> - Oct)
>
> Regards,
> Paul.
> ----- Original Message -----
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:52 PM
> Subject: [M]: Time Zone confusion
>
>
> In a message dated 6/1/01 1:16:37 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
>
>
>
> . Then set your GMT
> offset correctly. I dont know where you live
> but if you are in the US
> Eastern time zone the correct offset now is +3
> since its daylight savings
> time. Your post says you used +4 which is
> incorrect. Finally make sure you
> have the correct date entered.
>
>
>
> Hi all...I am a bit confused. In setting the
> controls for my lx200 I went to
> the site www.timeanddate.com and looked up the
> current local time offset for
> Toledo, OH (home) and found the offset to be -4.
> I also saw that in the
> manual for eastern time zone the offset is -4. I
> know that daylight savings
> time needs to be taken into consideration but
> cannot find where my settings
> should be -3. Is this an error in the referenced
> post? Please forgive the
> ignorance. I am new to the list and the LX200 as
> well.
> Thanks for the patience,
> Bob
>


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