From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 14:49:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F5E16A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:49:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B5543D4C for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:49:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zettel@acm.org) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (bgp966574bgs.derbrn01.mi.comcast.net[68.41.108.205]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004102914495501400s9k5qe>; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:49:56 +0000 From: Len Zettel To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:49:57 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20041028144448.012f5993@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20041028212503.2b6e4b0f@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20041029122645.GC1018@straylight.m.ringlet.net> In-Reply-To: <20041029122645.GC1018@straylight.m.ringlet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410291049.57024.zettel@acm.org> cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu Subject: Re: articles/cvsup-advance little question X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:49:56 -0000 On Friday 29 October 2004 08:26 am, Peter Pentchev wrote: > 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 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. > Other way around, I think - it is UTC that adds the leap seconds. -LenZ- > G'luck, > Peter