[Ambassadors] F12 Release Events: introductory meeting - Tuesday, September 15th 1800 UTC

[Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 13:38, Francesco Ugolini
<fugolini at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 2009/9/14 Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) <bochecha at fedoraproject.org>:
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:58, Francesco Ugolini wrote:
>>> GMT is another term to refer to UTC.
>>
>> Not really.
>>
>> At the moment, GMT is UTC+1, while in the winter, GMT is UTC.
>>
>> Don't forget the DST ;)
>
> >From http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/daylight-saving-time/ :
>
> "NOTE: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is an absolute reference time and
> does not change with the seasons.  Clocks move relative to GMT.  The
> UK and Ireland which use GMT over winter switch to British Summer Time
> (BST) or Irish Summer Time (IST) respectively.  This is one hour ahead
> of GMT (GMT+1)"

That's weird, in France we say we're always GMT+1 :)

And from the Wikipedia article, it looks like this is an abuse of
language to use GMT as the UK time, following the seasons. So my whole
country is wrong, how cool is that ? :)


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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)