JRS: In article , dated
Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:17:41, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Peter
Sumner posted :
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:02:03 +0100, Dr John Stockton
wrote:

JRS: In article , dated
Sat, 21 Aug 2004 10:27:07, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Peter
Sumner posted :

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.

"We" does not include the UK, where legal time remains GMT-based, use of
UTC time-signals notwithstanding.

Do we agree that the civil time used in the UK is UTC and that
legislation has failed to keep up with this?

Yes, and no. UK civil time is GMT, but law enforcement has been lax.

Fascinated by why you say almost all of the UK. Is there some part in
a different time zone?

There is some part which, I have been told by one who should know, keeps
a time differing significantly from London Time. I doubt whether it
should be described as a zone.

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