Re: [D-I manual] typo in appendix/exemple-preseed.xml

[Helmut Wollmersdorfer <helmut.wollmersdorfer@gmx.at>]

Philip Hands wrote:

> If what we're actually interested in is the name of the local timezone
> around the 0 meridian, then in the UK at least, we call it GMT -- 

People in the street use a lot of words.

AFAIK the official time in UK is WET (Western European Time) and WEST.

> I'm not
> aware of any countries that claim to be in the UTC timezone.

From the context of the original post

# Controls whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC.
#base-config tzconfig/gmt boolean true

you can see, that UTC is meant.

> The problem to which you allude is that GMT used to be synonymous with UT1,
> and is now used to refer to UTC, which can be different from UT1 by up to
> 0.9 seconds, 

That's why the term 'GMT' is deprecated.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer