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"I notice that the time is shown as 9 hours back from UK.
So I assume that in California you are still on daylight saving? Until when?"

The UK is 8 hours ahead of the San Fran Cisco area of California. For example if I call my son on Skype at 4pm from the UK, his time is 8am.
Is there a part of Cal. that is 9 hours behind us?

John