In message , at 10:27:07 on
Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Peter Sumner
remarked:
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.

Depends who "we" are. It would seem that official time as defined by UK
legislation is still GMT (aka UT1).

See Hansard for the debate on the failed "Co-ordinated Universal Time
Bill" in 1997.
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Roland Perry