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Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was officially adopted by Parliament in the UK in 1880 



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Samoa has switched time zones to come into line with Australia and New Zealand

Sirens wailed and fireworks exploded over Samoa as the tiny South Pacific nation jumped forward in time, crossing westward over the international date line and effectively erasing Friday, December 30, 2011, from the country's calendar.
Samoans who had gathered around the main clock tower in the capital Apia cheered and clapped as the clock struck midnight on Thursday, December 29, instantly transporting the country 24 hours ahead to Saturday, December 31.
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Set clocks back one hour: Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday

There are still a few more days of Daylight Saving Time, which will end for Coweta County and most of the United States Nov. 6. Remember on Saturday to set clocks back one hour or "fall back" to make the switch to Eastern Standard Time.
Daylight time will return March 11, 2012.
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US 2011 Daylight Saving Time

It's nearly that time of year again when Daylight Saving Time ends and we all have to turn the clocks back. For some of the world that began today but for the U.S. and Canada it's another week away. We'll give you time and date information now for US Daylight Savings Time ending, when the majority in the US and Canada will have to adjust their clocks.
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Russian clocks stay on summertime

Russia has not put its clocks back for winter this year, after President Dmitry Medvedev decided the country would stay permanently in summertime.
Mr Medvedev announced his decision in March, saying it was in order to relieve the stress of changing clocks.
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The clocks go back tomorrow for what could be the last time - but only if the Scots agree.
British Summer Time ends at 2am, but if a new Daylight Saving Bill which has received ministerial backing goes ahead it could bring the UK into line with Central European Time (CET) for a trial period of three years.
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Most people in the UK are to enjoy an extra hour in bed, as clocks go back to mark the end of British Summer Time.
At 02:00 on Sunday, clocks will be put back to 01:00 to mark the return of Greenwich Mean Time.
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When astronauts wake up on the International Space Station, they dont follow Moscow or Washington time, they wake up to GMT.
But all that could soon change. Bureaucrats at the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva want to abandon GMT as the worlds standard time.
For the first time in history, global time will no longer be linked to the spinning of the Earth. Instead, it will be determined solely by the ticking of atomic clocks.
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Britain sets the time for the whole world through Greenwich Mean Time or GMT.
It's all determined by the spinning of the earth and GMT is used to work out the time everywhere in the world.
But the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva, Switzerland, wants to abandon GMT and instead use atomic clocks to calculate time.
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Greenwich Mean Time or GMT is the time standard against which all other time zones in the world are referenced.
It is the same all year round and is not effected by Summer Time or Daylight saving Time.
GMT was originally set-up to aid naval navigation when the globe started to open up with the discovery of the "New World" (America) in the fifteenth Century.
It was not adopted officially by Parliament until 2 August 1880.
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Scotland and England could have separate time zones if a bill introduced into the House of Lords yesterday becomes law.
The bill put forward by Lord Tanlaw, a keen horologist and astronomer, would devolve time to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly - easing the way for England to stay at British Summer Time (BST) or Central European Time (CET).
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Bid to give Wales power to choose its own time zone debated in House of Lords

Wales would be allowed to choose its own time zone under proposals debated today in the House of Lords.
Crossbencher Lord Tanlaw said his proposal would allow England, Scotland and Wales to choose the time "best suited to the needs and geographical co-ordinates of their local electorate".
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How a huge new clock in Mecca is reviving a century-old clash over what time it is

Last August, on the first day of Ramadan, the largest clock in the world began ticking for the first time. The Mecca Clock, designed to serve as the authoritative timepiece for the world's 1.5 billion Muslims and positioned at the top of the world's largest clock tower, poses not only an architectural challenge to England's iconic Big Ben, but a political one as well. Defying the global agreement to consider Greenwich, England, the zero-point for measuring time and space - based on when the sun crosses over that meridian - the clock was constructed to run not on Greenwich Mean Time but on Mecca Time, with Mecca as prime meridian. This means that the Mecca Clock, and anyone who sets a watch by it, deviates from standard time by roughly 21 minutes.
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