Rob Seaman said: >> Microsoft *spit* Outlook calendar management talks about "GMT >> Daylight Savings Time" or some such idiocy. Every spring I respond >> to the first appointment request from my boss with "so do you want >> to meet at 10:00 GMT or 10:00 BST?". > > Isn't this a reflection of Britain having a single time zone?
No. [And, incidentally, part of the United Kingdom operates on a different civil time zone to the rest of it, though most people aren't aware of this.] It's a reflection of Redmond's "the USA is the whole world" stupidity. > Certainly there > is occasional confusion about meeting times and TV schedules, My comment above wasn't confusion, it's pedantry - point out that he's not asking for what he wants. [Before you point fingers, such pedantry is part of my job.] > In particular, the multiple timezones enforce a common > usage for daylight saving terminology. It is NOT CALLED "daylight saving" and it is NOT saving any daylight. It is "summer time". And that's another bit of the Redmond stupidity - not all the world uses the same terminology. [Personally, I consider this bi-annual clock change even more stupid, but that's another debate.] > Contrarily, in Britain you have chosen to call your civil standard > time "Greenwich Mean Time" That being because it is the Mean Time at Greenwich. Strange, I know. [Parts of the UK used to be on Dublin Mean Time.] > and your civil daylight saving time > "British Summer Time", Correct, that because it's the time in the summer in Britain. > rather than (for instance) British Standard > Time and British Daylight Time. British Standard Time is something else. And British Daylight Time is, I would guess, the opposite of British Nighttime Time. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 Thus plc | |