Im having a bit of a problem which i have found out today , i can spot myself via sms or my phones internet browser and yes the spots coming up on test but if i view them they are out by 1 hour . from my screen on laptop and my phone everything is out by 1 hour not just my spots .I know the time is in UTC but i thought UTC was the same as GMT ?
You don’t enter the time when you spot someone. You enter their call, freq, mode, summit and a comment and that’s it. The time is time the spot is received and is in GMT. Job done.
Andy i dont enter the time when i have spotted myself , all im putting it down to is here at the moment we are +1hr of UTC so when anyone is looking on sotawatch from our timezone they just need to think to minus 1 hour off … or am i wrong ?
There are no timezones in SOTA. Everything is UTC (or GMT if you are old like me). Everything is always UTC so that anyone, anywhere in the world knows when something is happening or happened. You need to adjust UTC to your local time if you want the time to match the time on your wrist. People in W6-land know completely how to adjust UTC to PST or PDT for example.