Is this 6:00AM standard or daylight savings time (I need to know when to leave the bar and head for the church)?

On Friday, October 24, 1997 2:01 PM, Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> In keeping with the recent commemoration of important dates, I thought that I
> should mention that the world has been expected for several hundred years now
> to come to an end, this Sunday, October 26th, at 6:00am, London Time -- just
> to give you fair warning.
>
> A great number of people thought that this event would occur last year, on
> the 26th -- but they found themselves to be in error. The cause of the error,
> as has been discussed here before, is that there was no Year 0.
>
> Three hundred and fifty years ago, in 1654, the most reverend Archbishop
> James Ussher calculated, based on the genealogy portrayed in the
> Judeo-Christian Bible, that the world was created in 4004 BC. That date of
> creation was later refined by Lightfoot (who's first name has been lost to
> history) to have occurred at 6:00am on October 26, 4004 BC.
>
> Ussher also calculated that the end of the world would occur in 1996, based
> on the statements that recur rather frequently in the Bible that "one day is
> with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day" (although
> this particular phrase is from 2 Peter, Chapter 3). In concordance with
> Ussher, Lightfoot set the date of the Earth's destruction ("when Satan shall
> be loosed out of his prison") as Oct 26, 1996, probably at 6:00am, London
> time, also.
>
> The problem with both Ussher's and Lightfoot's calculations were that they
> both forgot that there was no Year 0, thus the year that they chose for the
> end of the world was off by one year. As it occurs, this is the right year --
> and this Sunday the right day!  -- maybe.
>
> There may also be a second problem with Lightfoot's calculations. He did his
> work around 1700 (exact date unknown). What that means is that he had the
> choice of two calendars to work from, the Gregorian or the rectified Julian.
> If he used the Julian calendar, as was the custom in England at the time,
> then his date for the end of the world is also off by about 14 days, pushing
> it into early November. If he used the Gregorian calendar, then this Sunday
> is the day. In either case, all of the current discussion about support
> issues may be moot.
>
> Or, alternatively, the book of Revelations could still be right -- but things
> really won't be that bad. The Great Satan let loose on the world in this
> epoch could be merely Bill Gates.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>