ISKCON Indian temples & eclipse of 11th August

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> Is UT the same as GMT? Please verify whether the following calculations

> are right for closing the Indian temples. The umbra arrives in India at

> 12:28 UT i.e 5.58 pm in India if we assume UT=GMT.

 

No. Right now england is on Daylight Savings time. So according to UT the

eclipse begins at 9:03, but the Daylight Savings time for us here in England

is 10:03.

 

Eclipse event GMT

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Partial begins 10:03:33

Maximum (96.8%) 11:19:51

Partial ends 12:39:57

 

So UT means GMT without daylight savings. Because it's daylight savings time

(clocks move ahead one hour in the spring, back one hour in autumn) you have

to add one hour to get GMT.

 

Yours in Srila Prabhupada's service,

Vipramukhya Swami