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What does Greenwich Mean Time mean?

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Proper noun
  1. Mean solar time at the Greenwich Meridian.
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And it's where time itself starts, being the site of the prime meridian, Greenwich Mean Time or degrees longitude, depending on what you prefer.
This is a system of time measurement based on Greenwich Mean Time but counted from 0 hour which is equivalent to midnight Greenwich Mean Time.
Created in the 19th Century, GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, originally referred to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London.
Reverted to Greenwich Mean Time from British Summer Time over the weekend.
The return to Greenwich Mean Time means more light in the morning, when farmers are up and about, but less in the evening, when most of us get our ration of daylight.
The Channel Island of Jersey is having a referendum to decide if it will stop using Greenwich Mean Time and join Central European Time.

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