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@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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