Re: U-boat time in 1917
Posted by:
chrisheal
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Date: May 24, 2016 10:52AM
Hello Freddy
Wow! Thank you very much for the explanation, but I'm maybe a little slow today. Let me try the question another way:
The period that concerns me is January to July 1917. What happened before or after is, of course, interesting, but won't solve my puzzles.
Let's pretend that a German u-boat, an English destroyer and a French patrol boat met off Calais for tea on, say, 1 June 1917. They all recorded the meeting accurately in their logs.
The u-boat said the meeting happened at 1600 (the correct time for afternoon tea).
Question 1: What would the German-logged time of 1600 be relative to GMT?
Question 2: What time would the English destroyer log?
Question 3: What time would the French patrol boat log?
Question 4: Would any of these logged times above be different from that actual time at their bases? For instance:
4a: In Dover, where British summer time (GMT +1) was introduced in 1916 for 21/5-1/10?
4b: In Bruges, the U-boat's base?
4C: In Calais, the French patrol boat's base?
Question 5: Would any of these logged times change for any of the boats or any of their bases at any time between 1 January and 31 July 1917?
Thank you for holding my hand.
Chris Heal
Wow! Thank you very much for the explanation, but I'm maybe a little slow today. Let me try the question another way:
The period that concerns me is January to July 1917. What happened before or after is, of course, interesting, but won't solve my puzzles.
Let's pretend that a German u-boat, an English destroyer and a French patrol boat met off Calais for tea on, say, 1 June 1917. They all recorded the meeting accurately in their logs.
The u-boat said the meeting happened at 1600 (the correct time for afternoon tea).
Question 1: What would the German-logged time of 1600 be relative to GMT?
Question 2: What time would the English destroyer log?
Question 3: What time would the French patrol boat log?
Question 4: Would any of these logged times above be different from that actual time at their bases? For instance:
4a: In Dover, where British summer time (GMT +1) was introduced in 1916 for 21/5-1/10?
4b: In Bruges, the U-boat's base?
4C: In Calais, the French patrol boat's base?
Question 5: Would any of these logged times change for any of the boats or any of their bases at any time between 1 January and 31 July 1917?
Thank you for holding my hand.
Chris Heal
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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U-boat time in 1917 | chrisheal | 05/24/2016 02:09AM |
Re: U-boat time in 1917 | chrisheal | 05/24/2016 07:19AM |
Re: U-boat time in 1917 | Freddy01 | 05/24/2016 08:29AM |
Re: U-boat time in 1917 | chrisheal | 05/24/2016 10:52AM |
Re: U-boat time in 1917 | Freddy01 | 05/25/2016 08:01AM |
Re: U-boat time in 1917 | chrisheal | 05/25/2016 10:23AM |