Thanks, guys. I was about to suggest that myself. While most Americans don't know what time it is in CEST, many know what time it is in GMT (myself included). Now all of the times that you show are much more meaningful to me. People are always talking about all these different time zones and it would make things much simpler if everything was GMT (which it now is on your site).

What is GMT and what is it relationship to EST?

GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time, also known as Universal Time (UTC). It's the timezone of Greenwich, England, which is generally acknowledged as the "main" time zone.

During the summer (daylight savings), eastern time (EDT) is 4 hours behind GMT. The rest of the time (EST), it's 5 hours behind. One of the nice things about GMT is that it doesn't have a daylight savings time to worry about. See the URL above for some more information.

What is GMT and what is it relationship to EST?

I thought that the times were in CEST (Central European Standard Time), not EST. I guess it _does_ make a lot of sense to switch everything to GMT. It's hard to get that mixed up.

That was the right thing to do. One Earth,One Time:-)

Another suggestion: why not make the times GMT/EST or EDT? Implementing both could help make things less confusing for people who live in the US.

How would you propose we decide which other timezone to show? Even if we took a survey and found out that most of our visitors are in EST/EDT (and I'm guessing that's not the case), it doesn't make sense to play favorites.

We switched to GMT to stay "neutral" -- everyone SHOULD be familiar with it. It would be nice if things always showed up customized for your locality, but since we can't satisfy everybody we're doing the next best thing.

I think he meant putting both. They say it on TV like that: "8 Eastern 7 Central."

i think changing it was a wonderful idea