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Re: UTC time



On Thursday, 31.03.2005 at 09:44 -0500, John Fleming wrote:

> >UTC does *NOT* have daylight saving time.
> 
> GMT does though.

Not strictly true.  The UK has daylight savings time, and GMT is
actually an obsolete name for what our timezone is called during the
period when we *aren't* using daylight savings time (and BST == British
Summer Time for the period which we do).

Generally, when people now say "GMT", what they really mean is UTC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time

Dave.
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