Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Philip Hands wrote: > >> If what we're actually interested in is the name of the local timezone >> around the 0 meridian, then in the UK at least, we call it GMT -- > > > People in the street use a lot of words. > > AFAIK the official time in UK is WET (Western European Time) and WEST. Hm, that makes sense -- the news doesn't seem to have percolated as far as the BBC, but that's probably an attempt to avoid thousands of letters of complaint from "Outraged of Surrey" (who is firmly of the opinion that Europe is the bit on the other side of the English Channel ;-) > From the context of the original post > > # Controls whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC. > #base-config tzconfig/gmt boolean true > > you can see, that UTC is meant. Yup, sorry, I missed that -- clearly it should be UTC in this context. >> The problem to which you allude is that GMT used to be synonymous with >> UT1, >> and is now used to refer to UTC, which can be different from UT1 by up to >> 0.9 seconds, > > That's why the term 'GMT' is deprecated. For reasons outlined above, I imagine that the vast majority in the UK will continue to consider their local timezones to be GMT & BST (British Summer Time) for the forseable future, so when asking/displaying the local timezone, it would make sense to use them in the UK, since otherwise users will be confused. Cheers, Phil.
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