Astrology as a Business
Standard Time (MST = 7 hours), and Pacific Standard
Time (PST = 8 hours). This looks fairly simple; however,
in places along the borders, between time zones, it can
become quite messy, with one town on EST and
another (only a few miles away) on CST. There are
whole books available addressing just these variances.
Daylight Savings Time (DST)
Then, as you know, twice a year in the U.S., we turn our
clocks forward one hour (in Spring) or backward one
hour (in Fall). We have to keep this in mind. Thus, if it is
Daylight Savings Time here, in the summer in Big
Rapids, I need to subtract one hour from the time
zone—so instead of 5 hours, I use 4 hours, and so forth.
Many computer programs have a built-in time-change
atlas so that all of this is taken care of automatically. For
the rest of us, we have to keep this in mind.