Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:26:45 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: articles/cvsup-advance little question Message-ID: <20041029122645.GC1018@straylight.m.ringlet.net> In-Reply-To: <20041028212503.2b6e4b0f@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> References: <20041028144448.012f5993@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <41811CD3.9030000@mac.com> <20041028212503.2b6e4b0f@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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@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 -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@cnsys.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence contradicts itself - or rather - well, no, actually it doesn't! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBgjcF7Ri2jRYZRVMRAsCKAKC3f2Y4LdLttY/5zeQPOZs2vg7F4gCfcG1M 0ksB2wNunp6omno8BsQtGf4= =Mdtg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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