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Article: Forget GMT, my car got a ticket thanks to 'Ealing council time'.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 25, 2002
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Byline: ROSS LYDALL;RICHARD ALLEN
GREENWICH mean time may be an internationally recognised standard of timekeeping, but it seems some parking attendants have other ideas.
Adam Lockwood believed he had avoided a ticket by returning to his car, which was parked on a yellow line, at 8.28am - two minutes before parking restrictions came into force.
But he arrived to find a parking attendant standing next to it issuing a ticket timed at 8.30am.
Furious that he was being wrongly penalised, he used his mobile phone to call the BT speaking clock, which is set in accordance with GMT, which is itself determined by an atomic clock - the most ...