Spyke
DecentMreply
lemmy.ml

Oh my god thank you! I'm forever using wet instead of GMT now

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m-p{3}reply
lemmy.ca

To be fair, there's a slight difference between GMT and UTC: GMT becomes BST (in the UK) during summer, while UTC doesn't follow Daylight Saving Time and is tied specifically to the atomic clock.

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lemm.ee

GMT doesn't become BST as far as I'm aware, GMT is UTC+0 all year round, and BST is UTC+1 all year round, it's just that in the summer the UK switches from GMT to BST.

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I mean if you specify GMT, one could assume that you need to apply DST during summer, while UTC is garanteed to be static.

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dohpaz42reply
lemmy.world

Funny enough, it’s actually Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).

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needankereply
feddit.org

Love that it is called western european, when only three european countries use it.

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lemmy.world

That's because the other one sees itself as an island in the middle of the Atlantic.

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needankereply
feddit.org

My point was supposed to be about the main users of the tine zone being western african countries, yet the name being western eropean time zone.

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Let's get everybody on WET, in fact, let's just call it UTC and be done with time zones.

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