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Depends on your audience. If I had run into "UCT" or "Universal
Co-ordinated
Time" before reading this thread, it would have meant nothing to me.
If you are talking to people who aren't into that sort of thing, at least
refer
to GMT, which we know about.
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From: DAVID IBBETSON[SMTP:ibbetson -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM]
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 1996 7:52 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list TEC
Subject: GMT or Universal Time?
Keith Soltys writes:
>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?
Greenwich Mean Time was renamed "Universal Co-ordinated Time (UCT)" some
years ago at the international conference that concerns itself with such
things. However many UK sources, including the BBC, continue to refer to
GMT.
I'm not sure, but I suspect that this was at the same time as the second
was
redefined in terms other than the rotation of the earth which, nowadays,
isn't considered to be sufficiently consistent. An atomic standard
(?something to do with Caesium) has been substituted.
If Keith (in Canada) needs more information a good starting point would
be
the Canadian Standards Institution.
David (the idiot) Ibbetson ibbetson -at- idirect -dot- com
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Isaac Newton
David (the idiot who's lost the contents of his Nicknames directory)
Ibbetson
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ibbetson -at- idirect -dot- com
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addresses and any group details that I should have.
TIA for your trouble.
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