Subj : Stuff...
To   : Neil Williams
From : Dirk Teunis
Date : Tue Mar 25 2003 22:00:06

In a message of 08 Mar 03 Neil Williams wrote to me:

 TS>>> To the best of my knowledge, GMT, UTC and US Military ZULU time are
 TS>>> the same, and nothing has changed.
 DT>> GMT does have summer time.
 NW> I don't think that's how it's defined.

Universal time is GMT during winter.

 NW> The UK is GMT during the winter, and GMT+1 during the summer (BST =
 NW> British Summer Time). GMT is fixed.

 DT>> That attrocity that increases car accidents by 20% the day after it's
 DT>> introduced each year.
 NW> It do?

Yes and i HATE summertime.

 NW> How do?

Because people lack an hour of sleep. It's effect is larger than that of driving at the legal drinking limit (of 0.6 promille of alcohol).

deGroeten
Dirk [*]

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