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Re: The time zone of Greenwich
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2011 Oct 30, 14:17 -0400
Sent from my iPad
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2011 Oct 30, 14:17 -0400
What was that years-ago British headline? Something like,
DENSE FOG BLANKETS CHANNEL
CONTINENT CUT OFF
Hewitt
Sent from my iPad
They should just drop leap seconds and wait 900 years. Same effect. ;)
Shifting the UK to Central European Time is certainly a reasonable idea but the value of it will be a hard sell, and it will be easy to criticize it as "evil" EU-style continental tyranny. I doubt it could ever be made into law for the whole of the UK.
-FER
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