Paolo makes a great point! It'd be a cool extra talking point about the item if it had indeed been made during those weird 3 years when the UK government was running the time zone experiment.
Jon. On Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 10:43:08 AM UTC+1 Paolo Cravero wrote: > Hi. > According to this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time > , between "27 October 1968 and 31 October 1971" UK was on GMT+1. So, > depending on the year the clock was made, it could be correct indeed! > > The same analysis should be done for Portugal, that is currently on the > same timezone of UK. > > Paolo > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:26 AM Dekatron42 <martin....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Maybe the auction text explains why the UK is not in the GMT time zone: "It >> is a special edition #01-687 and is patent pending, so I assume this is a >> 1st edition and #687 made." - maybe they hadn't realized the error in >> this early "special edition"!? :'-) :'-) >> >> /Martin >> >> On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 at 10:25:40 UTC+2 Jon wrote: >> >>> The drawing of time zones onto the world map is a bit uh, approximate. >>> They've managed to exclude the UK from the GMT zone which is a pretty >>> foundational problem! >>> >>> Jon. >>> >>> On Tuesday, August 31, 2021 at 4:55:20 AM UTC+1 Terry Bowman wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Aug 30, 2021, at 9:01 AM, Terry S <tschw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I've been watching these for years on ebay. Finally snagged one last >>>> night -- I hope I didn't beat out one of you with my last second bid. >>>> >>>> >>>> Mine was the third highest. I stumbled across it in a "you might also >>>> like" section somewhere. >>>> >>>> Now if only I could afford to have my Kilburg Geochron refurbished. I >>>> got it for $20 at a hamfest 25 years ago. Has two Vietnams on it. >>>> >>>> >>>> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH >>>> "The Mac Doctor" >>>> >>>> https://www.astarcloseup.com >>>> >>>> “...the book said something astonishing, a very big thought. The stars, >>>> it said, were suns but very far away. The Sun was a star but close >>>> up.”—Carl Sagan, "The Backbone Of Night", *Cosmos*, 1980 >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "neonixie-l" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2ad28a90-0ffa-46f5-ac05-f79e7ebd4fb8n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/2ad28a90-0ffa-46f5-ac05-f79e7ebd4fb8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4ce595bd-1334-4872-8778-fcdb1529e017n%40googlegroups.com.
