Well, this has to do with the Railway and a court case that set time keeping in Britain. On November 24, 1858, at 10:04 a.m by Dorset clocks a Dorchester judge found against a man involved in a land battle because he was late for the 10 a.m hearing. Two minutes later the man arrived and claimed he was on time according to the Railway station clock in his home town of Carlisle in Cumberland.
The case had to be retried because of this discrepancy, and in 1880 Parliament ended the confusion by ordering the whole country to set its clocks by the Greenwich Mean Time.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to United Kingdom or UK) is a country situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe and is surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
The UK is composed of four constituent parts: three constituent countries England, Scotland and Wales on the island of Great Britain and the province of Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland. The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland forms the United Kingdom's principal international land border. There is also a frontier with France at the Channel Tunnel with the French border control being on the English side of the English Channel (La Manche)!
The UK has several overseas territories throughout the world, relationships with several Crown dependencies and Commonwealth realms.
If you would like to find out more here is a good website:http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/gmt.html
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