Time zones and why they change so damned often

[Alister]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 07:52:36 +0000, Bob Martin wrote:
>>>>we dont have "Daylight saving time" we switch between GMT (Greenwich
>>>>Mean Time) and BST (British Summer Time) at some point in the past we
>>>>have also used DST (Double Summer Time).
>>>
>>> British Summer Time *is* Daylight Saving Time.
>>
>>My point is in the UK we have never refered to it as Daylight saving
>>Time that is an Americanism :-)
> 
> Sorry, but you are wrong again!
> Just Google it.

Wikipedia

Daylight saving time (DST)—usually referred to as Summer Time in the 
United Kingdom

I had never heard the term daylight savings untill windows added it as a 
tick box.



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