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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by lgierth on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:11PM (#16253522)
Portugal, UK, Ireland have been in UTC for ages.
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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by wyufro on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:15PM (#16253547)
And Finland is in UTC+2. The thing regulated is probably when DST starts and stops, not the timezones.
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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by user5994461 on Sunday January 28, 2018 @04:18PM (#16253566)
UK is GMT time. Do not confuse with UTC, it's not the same.
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Re:Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time by dingaling on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:39AM (#16256900)
> Do not confuse with UTC, it's not the same.

GMT as a time standard is defunct. The Mean Sun no longer traverses his notional sky.

GMT as a civil time zone is based on atomic measures[0]. It is not measured from the meridian. This is the phrase used to indicate this in UK legislation:

In these Regulations Co-ordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the same time as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

[0] Time scale UTC(NPL)

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