davidhorman said:
Okay, let's look at this page:
http://www.worldtimezone.com/wtz-names/wtz-wet.html
This says WET is equivalent to UTC which is equivalent to GMT.
Let's not forget the one I've already quoted:
Here's an even more interesting one:
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/abbreviations.html
WET does not include any kind of savings time - it just doesn't fall under the function of a time zone. When Lisbon goes into Summer, it uses WEST, not WET.
David

Yes, WEST is WE Summer Time and WET is WE Time, fortunately for people like you they haven't got WEWT too, it would probaly blow your mind in the complexity of it all! WE Time is a system which accounts for either WEST / WEWT and uses the base GMT, which is independant of either, to account for the seasonal time changes in Western Europe. Are you still having trouble here?
The real issue here is about the JREF Forum time system. I repeat, as you seem to have glazed over this crucial issue: Look at the bottom of this page.
It says times are in GMT.
OK?
Well, does that time reading displayed there show base GMT or does it show the +1 hour BST adjustment?
It shows the adjustment.
Now, if you go check your user cp, you'll see that the default for the forum actually says 'GMT Western European' which is a system which
accounts for the Euro summer / winter time shifts.
The bottom line, whether you want to get more wet or not over this,

is that the forum displays what is commonly called BST GMT+1. As you said, the clock was - 40mins when Corbin posted, which puts his post at 3.55pm BST.
This was
well before the terrorist attack took place.
What now?
Huge coincidence? Am I a terrorist suspect?