On Wednesday, 29 October 2025 01:29:02 Greenwich Mean Time Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2025-10-28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 20 October 2025 15:31:31 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > [Wait, what I see is 15:31:31 +01:00, or 14:31:31Z, wouldn't that be > 14:31:31 GMT, or is GMT supposed to follow WEST?]
GMT does not follow anything, and especially not France, which lost the primacy struggle in the 19th century. The global longitude reference was defined to pass through the Royal Greenwich Observatory, not somewhere in Paris. [1] Each nation sets its own dates of summer time, as far as I know. > [Or, actually, given that in the post from 2025-10-20 the citation line > mentions "British Summer Time" instead... is your client possibly > mentioning the time zone in which the *reply* is being composed?] When I write a message, whether reply or original, I expect it to carry the time and date when I Sent it. That is, when I clicked the Send button, or much more likely, when I hit Ctrl-Return. Do you expect something else? 1. https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/time/greenwich-mean-time-gmt -- Regards, Peter.
