British Summer Time

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British Summer Time

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Horology) time set one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time: used in Britain from the end of March to the end of October, providing an extra hour of daylight in the evening Abbreviation BST Compare daylight-saving time

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British Summer Time n → ora legale (in Gran Bretagna)

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British British Rail BST Central European Time daylight-saving time go back summer time time			BRITISH Summer Time -the practise of putting the clocks forward by an hour in summer to make the most of the daylight hours, was introduced in Britain in 1916. Time for a change? by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England) 1925: British Summer Time became permanent with the passing of the Daylight Saving Act. Onthisday by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England) Byline: ROBERT ZUBALY ON Sunday, March 29, clocks go forward one hour and we come out of Greenwich mean time and into British Summer Time. Give us European time by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)			British Library British lion British List British longhair British lop British monetary unit British Museum British National Party British North America British Parliament British people British pound British pound sterling British Rail British seas British shilling British shorthair British Solomon Islands British Somaliland British Standard brass thread British Standard fine thread British Standard pipe thread British Standard Time British Standard Whitworth thread British Standards Institution British Summer Time British system British Technology Group British thermal unit British Togoland British Union of Fascists British Virgin Islands British warm British West Africa British West Indies British White Britisher Britishism Britneyfication Briton Britpack Britpop Brits britt Brittanic Brittany Brittany spaniel Britten brittle brittle bladder fern brittle bone disease			British Standard Whitworth thread British Standards British Standards British Standards British Standards Institute British Standards Institute British Standards Institute Association British Standards Institution British Standards Institution British Standards Institution British Standards Online Project British Standards Publishing Sales Limited British Standards Society British Starch Industry Association British state British state British Steel Corporation British Steel Engineering Steels Ltd. British Stock Car Association British Stock Car Drivers Association British Straits Settlements British Straits Settlements British Stroke Research Group British Structural Waterproofing Association British Student American Football Association British Student Quiz Championship British Student Taekwondo Federation British Studies at Oxford British Sub-Aqua Club British Summer Time British Superbikes British Supersonic Transport British Superultramodern Scientific Institution British Surface Treatment Suppliers Association British Surgical Trades Association British Survey of Fertiliser Practice British Suzuki Institute British Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association British Swimming Pool Federation British system British Table Football Association British Table Tennis Federation British tabloid British tabloid press British Tae Kwon Do British Taekwondo Control Board British Taekwondo Mudo Academy British Taiho Jutsu Association British Taoist Association British Tattoo Artists Federation British Tattoo History Museum British Tax Review British taxpayers British taxpayers British taxpayers British Technical Council of the Motor and Petroleum Industries

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