Re: Clocks Thread

In message <656udgF2edprdU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mark Carver <mark.carver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Martin wrote:
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:30:40 -0000, Yellow <yell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The OP is exactly right. Pedantry don't come into it.
Not so as the clocks "officially" change at 1am. This of course is regardless of what might actually happen in your local pub.

Nah they officially change at 2am all over Europe, the EU has decreed it on a
website somewhere and it says so in our local paper.

02:00 CET *is* 01:00 GMT, so the UK are compliant.

The EU ruling is that the change to summertime occurs throughout the EU at 01:00hrs UTC, and UTC is more or less GMT. Therefore in Greece the change to summertime occurs at 03:00hrs local.


Get out and get a life :-)


--
Edward Cowling "Time is not the enemy - forever is !!"

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