articles/cvsup-advance little question

[Peter Pentchev]

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 at 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.

G'luck,
Peter

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This sentence contradicts itself - or rather - well, no, actually it doesn't!
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