While British Summer Time might be meaningless outside Britain, the concepts of adjusting clocks by an hour in Spring and Autumn is fairly (totally?) widespread. Central European Time (GMT+1) adjusts to Central European Summer Time (GMT+2) for example. The concept of Daylight Saving Time is fairly well known.
Yes but the point I was making was that the concept of British Summer Time (which is GMT+1) doesn't apply outside of Britain. Daylight Savings is not 100% universal (many countries don't do it) but it's common enough.
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While checking this post I found reference to Dublin Mean Time - abolished in something like 1916, which put Southern Ireland 25 minutes behind GMT! How bizarre is that? ISTR from GCSE History lessons that until the railways came and a ntaional timetable was required, places like Bristol would be 8 minutes behind London, but I didn't know about the Dublin thing.
Not a unique situation to any particular city. The entire concept of it being one time of day wherever you were in the country did come about because of the confusion over railway timetables and what not. If it was 3:30pm in London, it would be 3:24pm in Leeds and 3:20pm in Bristol.
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According to Wikipedia, there are many places with off-the-hour timezones. Caracas is UTC-4:30, Tehran is UTC+3:30, Delhi is UTC+5:30, Kathmandu is UTC+5:
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(that has to be the oddest), Adelaide and Darwin are UTC+9:30.
The "lines" of the timezone have been moved as the years have gone by in order for it to bend round land masses and encompass islands and so on and so forth. The International Date Line off the East Coast of New Zealand has so many bends and adaptions on it, even going round Russia and extending UTC 0 to fit Iceland in.
The oddest time zone is UTC+8¾. Australian Central Western Time zone (CWST), is a small strip of Western Australia from the border of South Australia west to just before Caiguna. It covers an area of about 35,000 km2, larger than Belgium, but has a population of about 200.
This is a true story. Friday (as most of you will know) is the day of rest here in the Middle East. I always watch Live at Five (8pm my time) on a Friday (no particular reason), but with the clocks going back last week I now get to see the last hour of Afternoon Live.
As I was watching it yesterday, Kay Burley was interviewing a football writer who was on-set to speak about a British footballer who had been found guilty of beating up a woman in a nightclub (or something along those lines).
My partner (not a news fan/watcher at all) walked into the room, saw Kay Burley lounging around on the Sky sofa being all high and mighty with her guest, and asked "do they really use Hollywood actresses to read the news in your country?"
Gods honest truth.
Kinda sums up what Burley looks and behaves like, IMO. You couldn't make this up...........
Thanks for the PM, Josh. I can't reply to PM's for some unknown reason - the "send" icon has always been inactive on my screen. Can only do email response, should you send me details via another PM. Cheers. James
I can't reply to PM's for some unknown reason - the "send" icon has always been inactive on my screen.
I used to think that too - but if you point your mouse slightly above the send button it will work!
Wow. You are right, Stuart!! It seems we should put the point of our mouse arrow directly on the fine black border of the send button, and it will work. How odd!
I'm shocked she left her prominent position on AJE, presenting from Doha.
I think shes freelance though, as she presented the London bulletins a few days ago. She was very good on Sky this afternoon though, much improved since her ITV days.
