Re: help me to undertand GMT time!!!!
GMT is standard time at 0 degrees longitude. GMT -0500 means "Standard
time at 0 degrees longitude - 05 hours and 00 minutes.
GMT or UTC or Z or whatever you might want to call it this week is used as
a standard time because systems within a network might span several
timezones. If a problem is being traced and errorlogs from systems in
London, Seattle, and Hong Kong are being compared, it makes it easier if
all logs are kept in a standard timezone so you don't have to mentally
calculate all the time. THis is particularly true for local timezones that
might be 30 minutes different than the neighboring timezones instead of
one hour (newfie time is one example).
SO ... GMT -0500 means 5 hours earlier than GMT.
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote:
> I do not undertand time notation like "GMT -0500". Somebody can tell me
> how does it work?
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