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by SAI_Peregrinus 2073 days ago
GMT = Greenwich Mean Time, not Meridian Time.

It's the "Mean Solar Time[1]" at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, not the legal time observed there.

The legal time switches back and forth between GMT and BST, but the mean solar time doesn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_time#Mean_solar_time