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Armenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time / Samara Time ( UTC+4) Pale colours: Standard time observed all year. Dark colours: Summer time observed. The United Kingdom uses Greenwich Mean Time (also known as Western European Time or UTC) and British Summer Time ( UTC+01:00) (also known as Western European Summer Time ).
A gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's county, unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates. A.
Date and time notation in the United Kingdom. Date and time notation in the United Kingdom records the date using the day–month–year format (31 December 1999, 31/12/99 or 31/12/1999). The time can be written using either the 24-hour clock (23:59) or the 12-hour clock (11:59 p.m.).
This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during standard time or year-round. The main purpose of this page is to list the current standard time offsets ...
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]
[a] Using telescopes, GMT was calibrated to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in the UK. Chronometers or telegraphy were used to synchronize these clocks. [4] Standard time zones of the world. The number at the bottom of each zone specifies the number of hours to add to UTC to convert it to the local time.
Railway time. Clock on The Exchange, Bristol, showing two minute hands, one for London time ( GMT) and one for Bristol time (GMT minus 11 minutes). Railway time was the standardised time arrangement first applied by the Great Western Railway in England in November 1840, the first recorded occasion when different local mean times were ...
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 ...