Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:49:57 -0400 From: Len Zettel <zettel@acm.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Subject: Re: articles/cvsup-advance little question Message-ID: <200410291049.57024.zettel@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20041029122645.GC1018@straylight.m.ringlet.net> References: <20041028144448.012f5993@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20041028212503.2b6e4b0f@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20041029122645.GC1018@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
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On Friday 29 October 2004 08:26 am, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:25:03PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:22:43 -0400 > > > > Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > > > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > > I have the impression that our servers run now on UTC; if this is > > > > right shouldn't GMT be changed to UTC ? > > > > > > I thought that GMT and UTC are effectively the same thing...? > > > > From a day-today practical use, yes. However I think they differ "a > > little bit". Now of GMT everybody has heard of while UTC is a rather new > > thing. Important is to be coherent in the documentation, imo. > > You might be making the same mistake I made recently - confusing UTC > with TAI :) IMHO, UTC and GMT are indeed one and the same, while TAI > adds the occassional leap second every couple of years. > Other way around, I think - it is UTC that adds the leap seconds. -LenZ- > G'luck, > Peter
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