On Thursday 30 January 2003 5:44pm, Paul Mison wrote: > Something that came up at work this week was that whilst in the US > time zones have either S or D in the middle (eg EST and EDT- Eastern > Standard/Daylight Time), and Europe has CET which is the current > timezone regardless of DST status (so at the moment it's GMT+1 but in > May it's GMT+2), Britain has no name for its time zone; we're either > on GMT or BST (which is GMT+1). Unless someone out there knows of > one, of course.
Britain, Ireland and Portugal use WET (Western European Time). Britain went onto it in the 90s; whether WET was created then or had already been followed by Ireland and Portugal, I don't know. -- \|/GET| Dave Hinton -/SOME| Battersea, London, England /SLEEP| http://thereaction.co.uk/dah
