[CentOS] [OT] Re: New Standard/Daylight time-change dates in rhel4u2 butnot centos4.2?

Tue Nov 8 00:02:28 UTC 2005
Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com>

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 at 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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