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From: Andy.Linton@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Andy Linton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Time Zone Question
Keywords: time, 5.61
Message-ID: <1990Feb6.221326.17646@kaukau.comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 6 Feb 90 22:13:26 GMT
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In article <1990Feb4.140030.965@orfeo.radig.de>, peter@orfeo.radig.de
(Peter Radig) writes:

> But in the future there will be a little problem: England intends to
introduce
> daylight saving time. Nowadays, they are the only West European
country without
> such things.
> 
Surely not, the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland) have something called British Summer Time which operates each
year. The abbreviation is BST which can cause confusion with Bering
Straits Time (:-)

The difference between the UK and the rest of Europe is that the dates
on which the changes are made have not in the past been decided by a
fixed algorithm but by a decision in Parliament each year. I understand
that this is to change to bring the UK in line with Eureopean Economic
Community legislation and I suspect this is the change that Peter is
talking about.
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