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Shall we meet at eight then?
Well, it depends: Coordinated universal time, International atomic time, GPS time or Greenwich mean time? And let's not forget Internet time, that Swatch-sponsored gimmic that failed to catch on. As the earth spin slower, extra seconds need to be added every now and then. Fair enough. The problem is that not all "times" add these seconds, or add all of the recommended ones, and as a consequence they diverge further and further. The irony of it all is that Greenwich mean time has been officially replaced by coordinated universal time, but "British law still refers to GMT because a 1997 bill that tried to update it to UTC was never passed. It ran out of time." Let's meet at eight-ish then. update: Apparently, there also is Blogger time. And London Underground time, of course (just take whatever number of minutes are announced as the delay before the next train and multiply it by 1.75 to get the actual time).