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The United Kingdom spans from ~8 degrees west to ~2 degrees east, making UTC+0 its natural (local mean solar) time zone. So it is not a stretch to argue that sw
by lifthrasiir 4y ago
The United Kingdom spans from ~8 degrees west to ~2 degrees east, making UTC+0 its natural (local mean solar) time zone. So it is not a stretch to argue that switching to UTC+0 all year round would have a better result.
Conversely, it is obvious that UK switching to UTC+12 would have a very bad time compared to UTC+0 or UTC+1; so the same point can be said for UTC+0 vs. UTC+1 as well.
- throw0101c 4y ago> The United Kingdom spans from ~8 degrees west to ~2 degrees east, making UTC+0 its natural (local mean solar) time zone. Not only is it "natural" it was the basis of timezone in the first place. We now use UTC, but not too far back, and originally, it was called GMT. The definition of 12h00 GMT was when the sun reached its zenith at the Prime Meridian, which cuts through… Greenwich.