At last our clocks in the U.K. will all be GMT for a while

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At last our clocks in the U.K. will all be GMT for a while

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Yes tonight/Sunday 02:00BST the U.K. will revert to GMT time allowing not only for an hour's extra-sleep :bow , but making for the ease of just working one-time zone (where it all began many "yonks" ago)... :bow :hamster:

Nuffin to do with Halloween of course - thankfully, but will save me at least from all those conversions from other time-zones - somewhat. :D

The only snag is that other than my radio-controlled clocks, many require me to climb-ladders to adjust those non-radio clocks :cat

Shame that this has to be done - twice a year, but hey, I didn't introduce the idea of the wasting so much time for changing clocks in the first place... :lol:

Strangely enough, though, all aviation around the world is supposed to use GMT for its' operational and flight-planning purposes, which also applies to parts of astronomy and shipping too, so why can't the whole-world use just one time :?: :?: :?:

Happy GMT times. :bow
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Thanks exactly my vision about the "summer and winter clock".
Happy GMT and Halloween 🎃 Terry.


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If we did change to one time, the fruit cakes would choose British summer time because they think that we get extra light. However, none of them seem to recognise that in the winter the Sun wouldn't rise till 9.30am and everyone would be going to work and school in the pitch black, how depressing. But we would have an extra hour of light :? I really don't understand some people and their level of intelligence.

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Two beautifully correct answers from Maurits and Alexandra.

"Fruit cakes " = YES. Intelligence = NO.. And besides the cows and other farm animals can't read clocks and I'm not even sure if the vast majority of the "Fruit Cakes" can either...

GMT/Z was and still is the bench-mark for all time everywhere, whereas UTC is just another attempt of somebody trying to improve on that 360/0-degs/ East/West., brass-line at the Greenwich Observatory - which can't really be changed and in any case is very close to my home, so I don't want it changed either...

As for Halloween 🎃 , I'm not sure what that is all about, except the pumpkin-growers make a huge profit !!

Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year, as well as CLEAR SKIES for tonight's Aurora show...

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Is GMT the same as UTC??


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Technically no James as UTC uses a slightly different system than GMT/Z as per https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboututc.shtml and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinat ... ersal_Time etc., etc.

If still confused, then effectively they do much the same thing, with a very slight-difference...

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Oh, these games only confuse with time. For about 10 years or so, twice a year, we set the clock one hour back, then one hour forward. It was a crazy carousel.

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Very true Ivan. Idiots playing games for not obvious reason.

As I often say, "A change for the sake of a change."

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Hi All...

Well, we have another week before switching back to standard time and I'd personally prefer staying on the standard clock year round.

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Thanks Brian and seeing as the IAU were very much involved in one time for all and is now being considered to be implemented around our globe,
which that would be very difficult to implement, but certainly the way forward if international air-travel etc., continues as-is and getting busier too..

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Ivan wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:43 pm Oh, these games only confuse with time. For about 10 years or so, twice a year, we set the clock one hour back, then one hour forward. It was a crazy carousel.

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The US does that too. Fall back an hour in the fall and spring forward an hour in the spring. I would prefer to stay on EST. I would actually vote for a common global time. That would be UTC!!

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To paraphrase a certain radio series.

Time is an illusion, BST doubly so

yes some want us to adopt double BST.

How does choping off an hour at one end and adding it to the other make sense?


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As said previously guys and gals, this world is full of nut-cases who simply want "A CHANGE FOR THE SAKE OF A CHANGE" for no useful reason.

Doing away with all the time-zones and double-changes a year is a tad pathetic and I know many who believe that "INTERNATIONAL-TIME" as one time thought the world, must be adopted and by rights the best place for that to be would be starting as 00:00:00.0000001 hours on the original-brass-strip located at the Royal Greenwich Observatory-London - where it all started - so many yonks ago... At the 360/000-degs point too...

Nothing to do with the fact that I live fairly close to that location - rather that more accurate-time history started there and should have continued ever since...

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That should have course read " Doing away with all the time-zones and double-changes a year is the way forward in this modern world. "

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UTC could be changed to GET. Global Earth Time.

I think the main reason the time zone system is kept is to keep time with the day night cycle. UT doesn’t do this. It’s the same everywhere!

Of course all of us in our respective areas would quickly learn on the Universal Time Clock when it got daylight and dark.


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Sounds good in theory James.

One snag is that the word "universe or Universal" only really applies to the Universe, and not the Earth and should never have been used as such.

True "Global Earth Time" is one stage better, as would be "International Time" still referred to as "Z" time..

Everybody could and would get used to having their break-fast after sleeping their night-away, at 1PM/13:00Z or indeed any other time and the use of the 24-hour clock would also simplify the system and cut-down errors too...


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Terry,
The Uni in universe means " one ". I think that's why it's called Universal Time but I do like Global Time and International Time better.


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I agree James, but we are not alone as the Earth, where other planets, exo-planets exist, so "one" doesn't quite fit.
"GT" or "IT" seems better.

Thanks
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