Re: help me understand timezones
While the world no longer sets its clocks to GMT but UTC, GMT is still a
local timezone in the sense that EST is. Only its universality is obsolete.
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
> You were told correctly...
>
> GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal
> Coordinated Time--UTC is actually the acronym as it is in French). So
> the term GMT is obsolete but the meaning is unchanged.
>
> > A related timezone question:
> >
> > What is the difference between GMT and UTC ?
> > I was told that GMT is obsolete, and that UTC is now considered as its
> > successor.
>
Cheers,
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David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
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