Comment on We should have a WET timezone

JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• DecentM@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh my god thank you! I’m forever using wet instead of GMT now

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  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Completely! Didn’t know it existed either till I checked. Much more logical than GMT.

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  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or Universal Time Coordinated

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    • mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      To be fair, there’s a slight difference between GMT and UTC: GMT becomes BST (in the UK) during summer, while UTC doesn’t follow Daylight Saving Time and is tied specifically to the atomic clock.

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      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        GMT doesn’t become BST as far as I’m aware, GMT is UTC+0 all year round, and BST is UTC+1 all year round, it’s just that in the summer the UK switches from GMT to BST.

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Funny enough, it’s actually Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).

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      • doughless@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Close, Coordinated Universal Time. And for those wondering: Why is UTC used instead of CUT?

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• needanke@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Love that it is called western european, ehan only three european countries use it.

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  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s because the other one sees itself as an island in the middle of the Atlantic.

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    • needanke@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My point was supposed to be about the main users of the tine zone being western african countries, yet the name being western eropean time zone.

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      • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        OK yes that is indeed odd. Apparently Morocco is aspirationally European.

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