"David Cragg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> I'm with you there! Mind you the world now calls our GMT - Universal Time
> or UT - which must annoy the French and Germans who probably resent
> Greenwich being placed at the centre of the Universe and, in the name of
> EU conformity, want us to swap to European (as in Berlin) time.
>
> Peter Stockdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --- In [email protected], "Allan
> Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> "Ron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
>> message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> > It also screws up sundials as well (asumning we get any sun...)
> IIRC they
>> > are about 20 mins fast in summer and 20 mins slow in winter -
> only correct
>> > at March 21 and Sept 21.
>> >
>>
>> No the sundials are *always* correct, it's us that are wrong
> because we
>> artificially insist on using clocks
>>
>> --
>> Allan Jones - N/B 'Keeping Up'
>> www.keeping-up.co.uk
>
> The worst offenders are those that think they can improve life by
> shifting the clocks back and forth.
>
> Lets leave em alone and stick to GMT.
>
> Pete
>
Fight them on the beaches!
