This is a community blog and everyone is free to create their own things within it or to start discussions elsewhere or carry on the previous day's OT if the FPers are bit late getting to a computer. Ad astra per aspera
I'm not complaining, I'm very grateful for what you guys contribute. I'm just saying OT tends to be up about 2 - 3 hrs after optimum from my point of view. keep to the Fen Causeway
Are we going to have another round of people debating what the time of the Salon or the Open Thread should be for their own personal convenience like last time we moved them around? Never mind me, then. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
computers make that mistake often as well. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Greenwich Mean Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now sometimes used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, although strictly UTC is an atomic time scale which only approximates GMT in the old sense. It is also used to refer to Universal Time (UT), which is the astronomical concept that directly replaced the original GMT in 1928. Observations at the Greenwich observatory ended in 1954. In the UK, GMT is the official time only during winter; during summer British Summer Time is used. GMT is substantially equivalent to Western European Time.[citation needed]
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now sometimes used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, although strictly UTC is an atomic time scale which only approximates GMT in the old sense. It is also used to refer to Universal Time (UT), which is the astronomical concept that directly replaced the original GMT in 1928. Observations at the Greenwich observatory ended in 1954.
In the UK, GMT is the official time only during winter; during summer British Summer Time is used. GMT is substantially equivalent to Western European Time.[citation needed]
In other words, London is on GMT (or UTC, substantially similar) in winter, on GMT+1 in summer. Paris-Berlin are on GMT+1 in winter (ie now), and GMT+2 in summer.
DoDo and I did some fascinating (for PNers) research into the history of this, in some long-forgotten corner of this blog that I haven't got time to dig out now.
But be assured London is on GMT right now.
i didn't think Britain had a summer? "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Funny thing is, up a comma you find a colon.
I won't make any corny jokes about a 3rd runway. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
