Comment on Hey Android, why no love for UTC?parentComments−ytjohn10yRight, Britian uses GMT a portion of the year, and then switches to BST (British Summer Time) during the summer. BST is GMT+1. Android uses GMT and when summer comes around, Android's representation of GMT becomes GMT+1.−dingaling10yBritian uses GMT a portion of the year,For that period of the year we actually use a 0-hour timezone over UT1GMT simply doesn't exist any more. The two maintained timebases are UTC and TAI.
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Right, Britian uses GMT a portion of the year, and then switches to BST (British Summer Time) during the summer. BST is GMT+1. Android uses GMT and when summer comes around, Android's representation of GMT becomes GMT+1.
For that period of the year we actually use a 0-hour timezone over UT1
GMT simply doesn't exist any more. The two maintained timebases are UTC and TAI.