Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-40112086-20191120152050/@comment-44123106-20191123041437

This is Linka wrote: I have finished the pearls. However, I know that it finishes at 0900 GMT on Sunday. I checked so that I know when the Emerald Event starts. Please note that the time is GMT. For those in the UK, it will be 0800 as we are now on Winter Time. Not quite Linka. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the time we are on in winter - it is the same as UTC and Zulu time, i.e. the proper time. BST (British Summer Time) it the one that is a change. Long live GMT, where noon is noon (just about).

There's talk of the system changing in the next few years. I vote for fixing noon as close as possible to solar noon/zenith and dealing with lengthening days by letting mornings and evenings move naturally. For those who don't like seasonal changes, move closer to the equator!!

(Portia hates BST...a December birthday and born at 0700 BST, as part of the last experiment of BST in winter and double BST in summer - why would any want daylight at midnight, if they don't have to [apologies to Spockymum 😋] at the expense of lovely light mornings?????)