articles/cvsup-advance little question

[Peter Pentchev]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:49:57AM -0400, Len Zettel wrote:
> On Friday 29 October 2004 08:26 am, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:25:03PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:22:43 -0400
> > >
> > > Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> > > > Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > > > > I have the impression that our servers run now on UTC; if this is
> > > > > right shouldn't GMT be changed to UTC ?
> > > >
> > > > I thought that GMT and UTC are effectively the same thing...?
> > >
> > > From a day-today practical use, yes. However I think they differ "a
> > > little bit". Now of GMT everybody has heard of while UTC is a rather new
> > > thing. Important is to be coherent in the documentation, imo.
> >
> > You might be making the same mistake I made recently - confusing UTC
> > with TAI :)  IMHO, UTC and GMT are indeed one and the same, while TAI
> > adds the occassional leap second every couple of years.
> 
> Other way around, I think - it is UTC that adds the leap seconds.

Aye, that's another thing that I get wrong much too often :)  Thanks!

G'luck,
Peter

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