Time zones and why they change so damned often

Alister alister.ware at ntlworld.com
Sat Jan 11 06:14:16 EST 2014


On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:10:41 +0000, Alister wrote:

> 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.



or a more Authoritave souce https://www.gov.uk/when-do-the-clocks-change

The period when the clocks are 1 hour ahead is called British Summer Time 
(BST). 

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