Re: Time

Subject: Re: Time
From: David Dvorkin <dvorkin -at- BOLIX -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 09:02:31 -0600

Steve Riley wrote:
>There's always Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
>Sounds very Imperialist I know, but an obscure
>borough of London gets to set the standard for time.

In the U.S., it's now standard to call this UMIT, for
Universal Mean Time, presumably so that Anglophobes
won't get huffy.

David Dvorkin
Qualix Group, Inc.
Boulder Development Ctr.
mailto:dvorkin -at- bolix -dot- com

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