July 1, 2011
4:43 p.m.
On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
Clive D.W. Feather <clive@davros.org> wrote:
Just to make things more complicated, civil time in the UK is GMT (approximately UT1) and *not* UTC. So clocks should never have 23:59:60.
De jure yes, but it is de facto UTC. GMT hasn't been maintained for decades and almost all the UK government-sponsored time signals provide UTC without DUT1.
And apart from that, the UK keeps daylight savings, so in the summer civil time is an hour away from UTC. paul