Rob, et al -- ...and then Rob Reid said... % % At 9:51 AM EDT on May 28 David T-G sent off: % > GMT does not change in the summer. GMT is GMT all year round. That's % > why it's "Greenwich Mean Time" and not "Greenwich Most-of-the Time". UK % > Daylight time is BST , or GMT+1. % % I think you're behind the times, David ;-)
*groan* :-) % % I was taught that what you said above was true for a while until the town % (village?) of Greenwich got tired of not having daylight savings time (and % being an hour off from the rest of Britain for the summer) and relinquished % GMT. Thus was UT (Universal Time) born, which is the real, i.e. no Daylight Interesting concept. I wonder if the local clocks changing to Daylight really changes what is Greenwich >Mean< Time. % Savings, time at the longitude of Greenwich. In other words it's what used to % be called GMT, but Greenwich itself doesn't use it anymore, so GMT is an % anachronism. Well, I simply surfed over to greenwichmeantime.com and read up on GMT as well as UT (UTC) and Z (zulu). It certainly still seems to be awfully in use. % % If anyone from the vicinity of Greenwich would like to correct me, please do. % Puns are optional. Thanks & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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