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Re: Time Scales And Debian Installation:



On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 05:27:59PM -0800, tuco wrote:
> Some institutions just can't give GMT up and prorogate erroneous knowledge.  
> The British Broadcasting Service says GMT out of arrogance and the U.S. 
> Military says GMT  out of ignorance, for example.  But I feel Debian should 
> take a stand and cut the GMT usage out of its distribution.  After more than 
> 30 years of the world being on an atomic time scale, I feel we can put the 
> old astronomical time scale to bed. 

And people promote UTC over GMT out of arrogance *and* ignorance. Screw that.

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