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Happy editing! Cheers, 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 20:15, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Time in Iceland[edit]
Could you verify that the Icelandic law described at Time in Iceland#Abolishment of daylight saving time and adoption of UTC±00:00 because the citation seems to say GMT. If law explicitly states UTC+00, then your edit to Greenwich Mean Time can stand but if not, it can't. So can you quote the specific section of the law and translate it please?
FYI, GMT exists all year round; BST is just civil time that is used during the summer for excepted purposes.
Welcome again to Wikipedia! --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 20:15, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hello JMF. I picked that up from a conversation with a friend, he insisted on Iceland being on UTC because there's no daylight saving time like in GMT. I looked up the Wikipedia articles about it, then. For example https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dsland says UTC in the table on the right side. And so does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland, with the note (GMT/WET).
- So, after you asked me. I looked it up and http://www.almanak.hi.is/1968.pdf is the proposed law (by professors of the University of Iceland) and https://www.althingi.is/lagas/154a/1968006.html is the effective law. Both say "Hvarvetna á Íslandi skal telja stundir árið um kring eftir miðtíma Greenwich". That means they use the time of Greenwich *year-round* in the whole of Iceland.
- So the thing is, it was probably a confusion about the difference between GMT and UTC, together with the Icelandic wikipedia article saying UTC (which was more or less the only source I looked at). The law does not state UTC+00 explicitly, it says Greenwich time without the daylight saving time. It is common here to just say "GMT" when referring to the timezone, but we thought this was mere imprecision. So if GMT doesn't need to have daylight saving time, then Iceland uses GMT. On the other hand, than the right pane of the article https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dsland needs to be updated, does it?
- Thanks for the review. It's nice to see an active and pretty fast community. Have a nice day :) CrsiX (talk) 22:27, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- Interesting. Yes, lots of states defined their civil time law as GMT±hh:mm and for some unfathomable reason
, haven't considered it a prioity to correct it to say UTC. Give it another 50 years, no rush. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 00:56, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- Interesting. Yes, lots of states defined their civil time law as GMT±hh:mm and for some unfathomable reason
