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Yes but a GMT is an absolute reference
In Response To: Re: Sort of "poor people's GMT" feature of some L1340 ()

: The majority of European countries move to summer time Fabrizio, so
: CEST for example is still one hour ahead of BST. Of late, I
: believe the switchover date has been synchronised for a while
: too. So the watch would still sustain its utility in summer.

Hi Mark, what I meant is that as reference to GMT it is not valid after the move to summertime as CEST = GMT +2, so the extra hand kind of loses its meaning - which I think is Greenwich's absolute time (aka "zulu") rather than the British Isles' time zone. Earth knows nothing of summer times, that's just for us humans :-)!
Cheers
Fabrizio

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