Daily Archives: June 29, 2022

During summer, the UK is in the BST (British Standard Time) time zone. “Indeed, even the Greenwich meridian itself is not quite what it used to be—defined by “the center of the transit instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich”. In 1880 GMT was adopted as the main time standard for all of Great Britain’s purposes. […]

The most obvious thing about the Shepherd gate clock is that it has 24 hours instead of the usual 12 hours. Therefore, the 12 o’clock hour hand is pointing down rather than upwards. The advancement of telecommunication technologies influenced the creation of an even more precise system of time identification. In particular, the concept of […]