cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_tc.c

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Jun 23 16:28:46 PDT 2003


In message: <20030623231422.GK93137 at wantadilla.lemis.com>
            "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On Monday, 23 June 2003 at 17:05:33 -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In message: <20030623224600.GE93137 at wantadilla.lemis.com>
: >             "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: >> On Monday, 23 June 2003 at 13:14:09 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
: >>> imp         2003/06/23 13:14:09 PDT
: >>>
: >>>   FreeBSD src repository
: >>>
: >>>   Modified files:
: >>>     sys/kern             kern_tc.c
: >>>   Log:
: >>>   Use UTC rather than GMT to describe time scale.  latter is obsolete.
: >>
: >> GMT isn't obsolete.  It's the British national time zone (without
: >> DST).  But the change looks correct.
: >
: > It is obsolete as an international time scale.
: 
: In the same way that the American zones are obsolete?

The american time zones were never used as the name for a time scale.
That's why I called it obsolete.  GMT is the old name for the
internaltional commerical time scale that everything else was defined
in terms of.  UTC is the new name for that international time scale,
and GMT is just a timezone defined in terms of it.

Warner


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