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Re:Leap second hiatus by gerikson on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:48AM (#25170288)
There’s an ambiguity in that GMT is a civil timezone that in the UK is BST when DST is in effect. UTC cannot be affected by DST.

I hear a lot of Brits calling their time “GMT” even when DST is in effect. It’s a shorthand for “current time in the UK”. Hence, ambiguous.

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