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Peter Sumner · August 21st 04, 10:27 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 20 Aug 2004 18:10:04 GMT, are (Acrosticus)
wrote:

From: (Mark Brader)
Date: 15/08/2004 19:32 GMT Daylight Time
Message-id:

Aidan Stanger writes:
Dr John Stockton wrote:

JRS: In article , dated
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:12:29, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Acrosticus
posted :
From: Stuart
Date: 11/08/2004 09:58 GMT Daylight Time

No such thing.

....Skip the lies bit.

Thanks for that! It does know the name of the time zone though, which for half
the year is Greenwich Mean Time but at the moment it's British Summer Time (ie
GMT plus 1 hour); which it calls "GMT Daylight Time" for some reason of its
own.

Bit of a shame that someone with "Dr" in front of their name should be so
pedantic and ignorant at the same time though isn't it?

Any real pedant would know that in the vicinity of the zero meridian
we stopped using GMT - based on astronomical time in 1972 and switched
(after failing to agree the defining language for its TLA with the
French) to UTC - based on atomic time. UTC gets kept in sync with the
earths rotation by the occasional insertion of leap seconds which were
not required with the older time scale.

Should bus timetables compensate for leap seconds? (A pedantic attempt
to stay on topic)

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Peter Sumner