GMT versus UTC in GB

Markus Kuhn Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue May 18 09:34:25 UTC 2004


"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote on 2004-05-18 07:05 UTC:
> Time in the UK is defined, in statute, as Mean Time at Greenwich. An
> attempt to alter this to UTC *was rejected* by Parliament.

Was it actually rejected by vote, or was it just forgotten about
because of the (to most parlamentarians) obscure nature of the topic?

I know about the transcript of the second reading of Lord Tanlaw's proposal on

  http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199798/ldhansrd/vo970611/text/70611-10.htm#70611-10_head0

but was there any further voting on it?

Markus

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