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Subject:Universal Time or Greenwich Mean Time? From:Wolf Lahti <wduby -at- PACCAR -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 25 Apr 1996 11:10:09 -0700
This is the third time I've tried to send this to the list. :( Crossing my
paws this time.
Keith Soltys said
>I'm documenting a product that is being used in several sites around
>the world. The servers are synchronized to Greenwich Mean Time.
>Someone told me that it's now called Universal Time.
>Does anyone know if this is the case, and if so where can I find out
>more information?
UT and GMT aren't *quite* the same thing, but the distinction between the
two doesn't matter unless you need to be accurate to the same degree as a
Cesium-based chronometer.
Universal Time is the phrase I've seen in more common usage of late. The
most common use for a while was 'Greenwich time' (without the 'mean'), but
that has fallen by the wayside (along with words like 'wayside').
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