Oxford time, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 15 relations: Academic quarter (class timing), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, British Summer Time, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Colleges of the University of Oxford, Greenwich Mean Time, Lewis Carroll, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Prime meridian (Greenwich), Solar time, Time zone, United Kingdom, University of Oxford, White Rabbit.

2. Culture in Oxford
3. Culture of the University of Oxford
4. Time in the United Kingdom

Academic quarter (class timing)

An academic quarter (localized into various languages in the countries where it is practised) is the quarter-hour (15 minute) discrepancy between the defined start time for a lecture or lesson ("per schema") and the actual starting time, at some universities in most European countries.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.

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British Summer Time

During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC±00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and evenings one hour more.

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Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral of the Anglican diocese of Oxford, which consists of the counties of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire.

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Colleges of the University of Oxford

The University of Oxford has 36 colleges, three societies, and four permanent private halls (PPHs) of religious foundation.

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Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. Oxford time and Greenwich Mean Time are time in the United Kingdom.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican priest.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. Oxford time and Oxford University Press are Culture of the University of Oxford.

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Prime meridian (Greenwich)

The Greenwich meridian is a prime meridian, a geographical reference line that passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in London, England.

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Solar time

Solar time is a calculation of the passage of time based on the position of the Sun in the sky.

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Time zone

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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White Rabbit

The White Rabbit is a fictional and anthropomorphic character in Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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See also

Culture in Oxford

• Aestheticism
• Art Jericho
• At Binsey, near Oxford
• Binsey Poplars
• Books about Oxford
• Commemoration ball
• Conservative Party Archive
• Frank Cooper's
• Freud, Oxford
• Headington Shark
• Hearties
• Hinksey
• Jericho, Oxford
• List of fictional University of Oxford people
• May Morning
• Museums in Oxford
• New Chamber Opera
• Oxford Art Society
• Oxford Civic Society
• Oxford Down
• Oxford Law Society
• Oxford Preservation Trust
• Oxford Printmakers Co-operative
• Oxford Society of Change Ringers
• Oxford Union
• Oxford University Society of Change Ringers
• Oxford dictionaries
• Oxford sausage
• Oxford spelling
• Oxford time
• Oxfordian (stage)
• Phoenix Picturehouse
• Professor of Poetry
• Punt (boat)
• Sheldonian Theatre
• Silent Energy: New Art from China
• Socratic Club
• Spoonerism
• St Giles' Fair
• The Eagle and Child
• The Kilns
• The Light of the World (painting)
• The Oxford Artisan Distillery
• The Scholar Gipsy
• The Silent Traveller in Oxford
• Thyrsis (poem)
• Town and gown
• Ultimate Picture Palace
• William Turner (painter)

Culture of the University of Oxford

• A Theory of Justice: The Musical
• Academic dress of the University of Oxford
• An Oxford University Chest
• Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
• Birmingham Set
• Coat of arms of the University of Oxford
• College family (university)
• Dame's Delight
• Dominus illuminatio mea
• Einstein's Blackboard
• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
• Festum Ovorum
• History of the University of Oxford
• Hymnus Eucharisticus
• ILabour Project
• Inklings
• Mallard Song
• May Morning
• New Oxford Wits
• Norrington Table
• Oxcentrics
• Oxford Almanack
• Oxford Classical Drama Society
• Oxford English Limited
• Oxford Odissi Centre
• Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
• Oxford University Dramatic Society
• Oxford University Film Foundation
• Oxford University Press
• Oxford Wits
• Oxford shoe
• Oxford time
• Oxford–Cambridge rivalry
• Oxide Radio
• Parson's Pleasure
• Shelley Memorial
• The Inklings
• The Silent Traveller in Oxford
• Thin Ice (2013 film)
• Ugly Rumours (band)
• Undergraduate education at the University of Oxford
• University of Oxford Botanic Garden

Time in the United Kingdom

• Act of Parliament clock
• British Horological Institute
• Calendar (New Style) Act 1750
• Date and time notation in the United Kingdom
• Daylight saving time in the United Kingdom
• Greenwich Mean Time
• Greenwich Time Signal
• Old Style and New Style dates
• Oxford time
• Ruth Belville
• Sandringham time
• Synod of Whitby
• Time from NPL (MSF)
• Time in the United Kingdom
• Western European Summer Time
• Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_time