> Chances of adopting a universal timezone are pretty much nonexistent for political reasons(...) -I was once told (and found it too amusing to verify the trut

> Chances of adopting a universal timezone are pretty much nonexistent for political reasons(...) -I was once told (and found it too amusing to verify the truth of it!) that as GMT took hold as the go-to global time reference, the French grudgingly complied, but referred to it as 'Paris time minus seven minutes and twenty-six seconds' or something to that effect.