Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:14:55 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Len Zettel <zettel@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: articles/cvsup-advance little question Message-ID: <20041029151455.GA1024@straylight.m.ringlet.net> In-Reply-To: <200410291049.57024.zettel@acm.org> References: <20041028144448.012f5993@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20041028212503.2b6e4b0f@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20041029122645.GC1018@straylight.m.ringlet.net> <200410291049.57024.zettel@acm.org>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:49:57AM -0400, Len Zettel wrote: > 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 <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. >=20 > Other way around, I think - it is UTC that adds the leap seconds. Aye, that's another thing that I get wrong much too often :) Thanks! G'luck, Peter --=20 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 No language can express every thought unambiguously, least of all this one. --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBgl5v7Ri2jRYZRVMRAuEvAKC9oPfHzvUfH+OILA3iASc1JgdUBgCgvvjR CJLrxgfF7xWAjvU/QYO+laI= =Kxit -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--
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