what do you set your gmt at?

[77T]

Originally Posted by PunkJr

I'm unfortunate in the fact that I live in a GMT +9 1/2 time zone

The bezel free rotates to compensate for that

[jackwebb]

Originally Posted by c.rod

that would be eastern time right?

[ralfcom]

home

[Zed Homme]

Originally Posted by CBG

Isn't GMT = UTC = Zulu?

Yes, and I find it extremely useful if I don't know if a time zone is in daylight savings or not.

[Andad]

Originally Posted by 77T

The bezel free rotates to compensate for that

Not my GMT TTc.

No half hour stop on that one.

But my Seiko Astron does the job.

[Hairdude1]

I set it to GMT

[Psmith]

Home (24 hr hand) time if travelling

Otherwise, tracking family who are spread out across several continents

Although my smartphone is much better at this!

[rodrob59]

Originally Posted by Roller07

I set mine to Vegas time..........I like to go to Vegas

Me too. Always looking to get back.

[FiftyTwoEighty]

Home time for me. I travel between time zones frequently as well.

[Chngster]

Always set to GMT time. This way I know the world reference is at, and can recalculate any other world time at any given moment by rotating the bezel.


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[Htab]

East coast time. Not that it's hard to figure out but that's what inset it at

[TSts]

Zulu time

[serdal22]

I set my second time zone hand for Turkiye and hour hand for Western Canada, B.C. Thus I don't wake up my relatives in Eastern Europe mistakenly.

Capt. Serdal

[SPACE-DWELLER]

Originally Posted by Speed

24 Hour hand = Home time

Same here!

[Andad]

24 hour hand is GMT (with bezel at 12) for me and I spin the bezel for other world times.
I have the watch on home time.

[springbar]

UTC/Zulu time. It is the worldwide reference for all communications to international audiences, such as news reports. It isn't subject to daylight savings or any other nonsense.

Zulu time is the way to go whether you know anybody in UTC+0 or not.

[Speed]

Originally Posted by Hairdude1

I set it to GMT

Why?

[Steve260]

I set mine to GMT. The hour & minute hand is always set to wherever I happen to be at the moment. Since I frequently have to deal with multiple time zones by phone, just remembering the "GMT offset" for various places makes it easy for me to know what time it is at various locations by just rotating the bezel.

I guess if I primarily just traveled from home to another time zone then back again (vacations?), I would probably set the 24 hr hand to "home time" and set the hour & minute hands to wherever I happened to be. That's a great way to use an Explorer II (since the bezel doesn't rotate).

[Fredrik]

Originally Posted by nauticajoe

Mine is set to GMT. I deal a lot with London.

You're in for a surprise then when they are at BST half of the year...

Remember, you actually change the time zone when you go to/from daylight savings time, so London will be in WET(GMT, UTC) in the winter and in WEST(BST, CET) in the summer. Of course, the central parts of Europe will go from CET to CEST in the summer.

The timezone abbreviations are only aliases for UTC+/- some time. UTC+1 is called CET in Berlin and BST in London.


Oh, regarding the half hour time zones, Katmandu has a 45 minute offset from nearest hour, that is even harder to dial in on a modern GMT watch.

If I ever get to rule a country I am going to have a 37 minute offset in the winter and a 13 minute offset in the summer just to annoy people, eh, I mean my underlings...

[Lrd2sea]

Originally Posted by PunkJr

I'm unfortunate in the fact that I live in a GMT +9 1/2 time zone

Wow, never thought of that. That 0.5 hr would rander the GT watch function useless, wouldn't it? Just like the +5.75 hr time zone,...

I set mine at GMT, BTW. This way I can always find the time I need by turning the bezel.

[Dan Pierce]

I set mine on my wrist where it belongs.
dP

[landroverking]

Zulu

[OLJR]

12-hour hand: local time
24-hour hand: GMT
Bezel: either local time or a third country time if required, e.g. family on holiday, colleagues or clients in a third country

[Speed]

Mr. Rolex must be having a giggle.

[HK33]

One thing I did not see specified anywhere in this thread is what GMT watch everyone owns. If you have an older GMT Master then I am sure you set it to home time, because there is not an option to set the 24 hand to another time. However if you own a GMT II the whole advantage to me in this movement is the fact that I can set the GMT hand to Zulu time. As a pilot it is helpful to know Zulu time, and Zulu does not change for DST so you never have to reset the 24 hour hand.

[fishingbear]

24 hour hand stays on home time when I travel.

[WatchWeb]

12 hour is GMT time (I'm in the UK anyway),
GMT is same,
Bezel is in its standard arrow at 12 position (as I still haven't got eh hang of a 3rd time zone).

Got a GMT2C . This is my first full day of owning it :)

[jwill051]

Home time, EST

[outlaw468]

24 hour hand to home time.

[jagwap]

Originally Posted by OLJR

12-hour hand: local time
24-hour hand: GMT
Bezel: either local time or a third country time if required, e.g. family on holiday, colleagues or clients in a third country

As I am in China and my friends and family are in the UK, this is ideal, except during BST (British Summer Time, like the DST). Then I cheat and do GMT +1 on the green hand.