Ziddina: Yes I believe that is standard time.
BabaYaga, InquiryMan, Vivalavida: I find this is shocking but quite interesting indeed. I wonder if JWs from like the United Sates would be stumbled if they visited Europe and saw bearded elders. It is not entirely surprising though. I live in the East coast but I have friends in Southern California and the way they do things out there is vastly different than here. Beards are still pretty much a no no. But I am talking about Elders openly listening to rap music and active sisters wearing hootchie/club dresses to the memorial different. I just think that that if you grow up in one place thinking you absolutely have to do things a certain way, that these are Jehovah's standards and the only way to be pleasing to him, then you go to another part of the country or world and see the total opposite, how can one not see how much of a joke the whole thing is. That most of their randomly applied rules are just not biblical at all and have nothing to do with God.