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From 1972 to 1980, the day following the third Saturday in March was the start of British Summer Time (unless that day was Easter Sunday, in which case BST began a week earlier), with the day following the fourth Saturday in October being the end of British Summer Time. From 1981 to 2001, the dates were set in line with various European Directives.
Dates are traditionally and most commonly written in day–month–year (DMY) order: [1] [2] 31 December 1999; 31/12/99; Formal style manuals discourage writing the day of the month as an ordinal number (for example "31st December" or "31st December"), except with an incomplete reference, such as "They set off on 12 August 1960 and arrived on the 18th".
Greenwich Mean Time is defined in law as standard time in the following countries and areas, which also advance their clocks one hour (GMT+1) in summer. United Kingdom, where the summer time is called British Summer Time (BST) Ireland, where it is called Winter Time, [22] changing to Standard Time in summer. [21]
t. e. The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, [ 1 ] into a new unitary state called Great Britain. [ a ] Of this new state, the historian Simon Schama said:
The Spring Bank Holiday was moved from 27 May to 4 June to create a four-day weekend. [38] In 2012, there was a special holiday on Tuesday 5 June to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. The Spring Bank Holiday moved to Monday 4 June to create a four-day weekend. [39]
During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC±00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more. [1][2] BST begins at 01:00 GMT every year on the last Sunday of March and ends at ...
The 12-hour clock is a time convention in which the 24 hours of the day are divided into two periods: a.m. (from Latin ante meridiem, translating to "before midday") and p.m. (from Latin post meridiem, translating to "after midday").
At this time, Flight 175 is being hijacked and Flight 11 is about to descend to New York and is 4 minutes away from crashing. 8:42–8:46 (approx.): Flight 175 is hijacked above northwest New Jersey, about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of New York City, continuing southwest briefly before turning back to the northeast. At this time estimate ...