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8 unusual facts about Greenwich Mean Time


Australia Act 1986

Then, visiting Australia, at a ceremony held in Government House, Canberra, on 2 March 1986 the Queen signed a proclamation that the Australia Act (Cth) would come into force at 5 am Greenwich Mean Time on the following day.

For British Eyes Only

Michael misses gaining access to the files, as the records office is working on Greenwich Mean Time, but he does arrange a date with Rita.

ITV Westcountry

Westcountry, originally an independent company, replaced Television South West at 00:00 GMT on 1 January 1993.

Lego Universe

When the promotion started, it had a timer ending on April 2, 2010, at 12:00am midnight, GMT, which is April 1 at 8:00pm ET.

On March 27, the timer reset to June 2, 2010, at 12:00am GMT, or June 1 at 8:00pm ET.

Paris Peace Accords

Beginning on 27 January 1973 at midnight, Greenwich Mean Time—in Saigon time, 08:00 on 28 January—there would be an in-place ceasefire.

Theoretical astronomy

Since the Earth's rotation is irregular, any time scale derived from it such as Greenwich Mean Time led to recurring problems in predicting the Ephemerides for the positions of the Moon, Sun, planets and their natural satellites.

Time in Thailand

Thailand declared that people would move their clocks ahead by 17-minutes 56-seconds to match the time in use in Southeast Asia (UTC+06:42:04 hrs and UTC+07:00:00 ahead of Greenwich Mean Time) on 31 March 1920.


1934 Air France Wibault 282T crash

The aircraft had taken off from Le Bourget at 11:15 local time (10:15 GMT) and passed over Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime at 12:10.

1935 SABENA Savoia-Marchetti S.73 crash

Between 16:30 and 17:00 GMT, the aircraft crashed into the garden of a house named Mosscroft, in Tatsfield, located close to the Tatsfield Aerial Beacon.

Eastern Standard Tribe

Told mostly in flashbacks, Art explains that he works in London as a consultant for the Greenwich 0 tribe.

ITN World News

The newscast began broadcasting in 1987, and its main broadcast was shown live at 21.00 GMT (22.00 CET).

Nadahan wedding bombing

The Nadahan wedding bombing was a suicide attack on a wedding party, which occurred on 9 June 2010 at around 21:00 local time (16:30 GMT) in the village of Nadahan in Arghandab District of the Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.

Nottingham Subscription Library

In the first-floor 'Standfast Library' is a Meridian Line, used to set clocks to Noon local time in the days before Railway time or Greenwich Mean Time was introduced as the British standard.

Time in France

In 1911, Metropolitan France adopted GMT+0 (the solar time of Greenwich) as its official time, and used it until 1940 (with GMT+1 used during the summers from 1916 to 1940).

Time in Malaysia

The proposed time was 30 min forward of the mean time of the 105th meridian east, i.e. UTC+07:30 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

Daylight Saving Time would henceforth be 30 min ahead of the mean time of the 105th meridian (10 min more than the original DST), i.e. UTC+07:30 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

Universal Time

In 1935, the term Universal Time was recommended by the International Astronomical Union as a more precise term than Greenwich Mean Time, because GMT could refer to either an astronomical day starting at noon or a civil day starting at midnight.


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