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Well,<br>
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You didn't disappoint too much, the term "UTC" always makes me
chuckle, and I always bait my friends across the water by pretending
not to know what it is....<br>
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The French originally wanted zero Longitude to be through Paris, but
they changed in the end....<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.fi.edu/time/keepers/frick/res3.htm">http://www.fi.edu/time/keepers/frick/res3.htm</a><br>
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I think this actually answers it all.....<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time</a><br>
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Long live GMT...<br>
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P.<br>
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Bryan J. Smith wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Peter Farrow <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:peter@farrows.org"><peter@farrows.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">For those of us who live the promised land where GMT is
absolute time all the this "UTC" nonsense is of little
concern....
Those of you across the water cant even bring yourselves to
call it GMT, you have hide behind the label of "UTC", it is
GMT, Greenwich Mean Time at Zero Longitude...
Even Microsoft can get this right (see attached) ;-)
(can't wait for the barrage of replies to this one.....
tee hee....)
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You wouldn't happen to be a British national now would you?
;->
I could be wrong, but I thought the reason why it is often
referred to as "UTC" instead of "GMT" was to make it less
"marketing" of the British geography?
I'm sure that also has something to do with the French "Le
Meridien" which is recognized in basically that country only.
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<pre wrap="">---> Brian, I'm ready: lay it on me.... at least 5
paragraphs please......
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I already used up my quota on my other posts today, so I
short-changed you. ;->
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