From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 15:14:29 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 CB95616A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:14:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gandalf.online.bg (gandalf.online.bg [217.75.128.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C2FC43D48 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:14:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 20964 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2004 15:14:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO straylight.ringlet.net) (217.75.134.254) by gandalf.online.bg with SMTP; 29 Oct 2004 15:14:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 6086 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Oct 2004 15:14:56 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:14:55 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: Len Zettel Message-ID: <20041029151455.GA1024@straylight.m.ringlet.net> Mail-Followup-To: Len Zettel , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Ion-Mihai Tetcu References: <20041028144448.012f5993@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20041028212503.2b6e4b0f@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20041029122645.GC1018@straylight.m.ringlet.net> <200410291049.57024.zettel@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200410291049.57024.zettel@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Ion-Mihai Tetcu cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org 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 15:14:29 -0000 --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 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--