Hold on... its UTC? Darn it, I have been using GMT all this time ... (in the US at that... hope they don't kick me out)
Peter Farrow wrote:
Well,
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....
The French originally wanted zero Longitude to be through Paris, but they changed in the end....
http://www.fi.edu/time/keepers/frick/res3.htm
I think this actually answers it all.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time
Long live GMT...
P.
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Peter Farrow peter@farrows.org wrote:
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....)
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.
---> Brian, I'm ready: lay it on me.... at least 5 paragraphs please......
I already used up my quota on my other posts today, so I short-changed you. ;->
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