"It's reasonably accurate - the cuckoo comes out on cuckoo time - but it's not necessarily Greenwich Mean Time, " he said.

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Greenwich Mean Time, 12 days after the launch of the military action in Libya, NATO took sole command of international air operations over Libya.

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After initially claiming that it was taking time to redact the data, LulzSec hacker Sabu announced that the data would be released Thursday at 1pm Greenwich Mean Time.

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Peers also asked questions to government ministers on changing the clocks between British Summer Time and Greenwich Mean Time, recommendations of an Ofsted report on lessons to be learnt from serious case reviews, and the occupation of Abyei by Northern Sudanese forces.

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