Please add GMT to the world clock.

To anyone at apple reading this:


Please add GMT to the world clock.


A lot of software and sites that are international in nature display GMT as reference time for upcoming events as well as logged events.


Currently the world clock only has actual countries and locations as possible choices , but those all have daylight savings. GMT doesn't have daylight savings and is the same in summer as in winter. Selecting the united kingdom is thuus not an option.


Thank you in advance for considering fixing this oversight , or considering to add it.


PS , Add it as ZULU time as an alias as well , airplane pilots with iphones will be thankful.

iPhone 4

Posted on Feb 21, 2012 10:10 AM

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Feb 21, 2012 10:45 AM in response to Phoenixxl

Phoenixxl wrote:


They should add an alias for GMT and ZULU though .. they are used way more often in coloquial english.

That's the key - English. Believe it or not, iPhones are used by people speaking local languages in over 100 different countries. English speakers aren't even the largest plurality. UTC by international convention is recognized in all of them. The reason it is UTC is that it does not translate to anything meaningful in any language, so it offends no one. "Greenwich Mean Time" certainly does, as it implies that England is the center of the world (and if Napoleon had not been defeated at Waterloo we would be using PMT instead of GMT).

Feb 18, 2014 2:30 PM in response to Phoenixxl

I was looking for that for that in the World Clock in the Dashboard when it first appeared...they still haven't added it (I sent feedback many times wondering how they could call it a World Clock without UTC). You can't just use London, because London observes Summer Time/Daylight Saving Time half the year. But, if you use a city that is in the GMT time zone but closer to the equator, you are more likely to find a place that doesn't change... try Monrovia, Liberia or Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

Feb 19, 2014 11:40 AM in response to AveryTimm

AveryTimm wrote:


I was looking for that for that in the World Clock in the Dashboard when it first appeared...they still haven't added it (I sent feedback many times wondering how they could call it a World Clock without UTC). You can't just use London, because London observes Summer Time/Daylight Saving Time half the year. But, if you use a city that is in the GMT time zone but closer to the equator, you are more likely to find a place that doesn't change... try Monrovia, Liberia or Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire.

And, of course, you didn't actually read the 2 year old thread you posted to, because if you had you would not have had to post.

Jun 14, 2017 3:14 AM in response to Phoenixxl

I'd like to add to your suggestion. Today I am looking at the World clock - which is fantastic generally - and am told the time in London is 11:07, when the London University website I am using has the time at 10.07.


I think the World Clock has confused GMT for BST British Standard Time, which I believe is adjusted for daylight saving purposes forward and back an hour as the seasons change. I would think the World clock should offer two timezones:

- "GMT aka Zulu" time as Phoenixxl suggests;

- "London (BST)", showing the daylight savings adjusted British Standard Time rather than GMT as apparently it does now.

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