On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 06:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 10:10 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:let's call it UTC, not GMT, to have same terminology as in RFC.I sometimes like to use 'GMT' just to reinforce the "GMT does *not* mean UK time" message. :)<pedantry> It's certainly true that GMT is not the same as UK time, but even GMT is not really a standard timezone (though it's still used in some countries). UTC is the correct term AFAIK. </pedantry>
I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say that GMT isn't a "standard timezone". What type of standard do you mean? It is used as the legal time (or the basis for it) in a number of countries, and is thus in the timezone database. What more does a timezone need, to be a "standard timezone"? Strictly speaking, GMT and UTC are *different* things. They can differ by up to a second. But that isn't really important. For most practical purposes, they are interchangeable. -- dwmw2
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