Time Zones (was Re: [computer-go] KGS Slow tournament)

[Nick Wedd]

In message <A6C7EBA8-5343-49B1-9B66-520B04CA672F at lclark.edu>, Peter 
Drake <drake at lclark.edu> writes
>An interesting report.
>
>I have a question about a line near the end where you address the two 
>meanings of "UCT":
>
>"UCT as applied to times stands for Universal Coordinate Time. It is 
>the same, for most practical purposes including ours, as GMT, Greenwich 
>Mean Time, the time zone based on London, England."
>
>I had an experience where I set a Mac OS X "Dashboard Widget" clock  to 
>London time, and it was an hour off from UCT. I could only get the 
>correct time by using Dakar as the city. Does London use something like 
>Daylight Savings Time, making London time the same as GMT/UCT only part 
>of the year?

In the winter, London uses UCT;  in the summer, it uses BST, which is 
one hour ahead of UCT.

Nick
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