> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:16:37 -0800 (PST)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Best ways to find time/date differences
> To: [email protected]
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> Bill-
> >>
> >>
> >> UTC (Universal Time Code) means something like what you get from
> >> localtime(), but with a " -0500" or " +0500" following
> >
> > UTC actually means 'Universal Time Coordinated' and you're talking
> > about the format which he already gave as not including the TZ info.
> > Basically he has a GMT time.
>
> Sorry, but neither of you is correct. UTC is not a TLA, it is a
compromise
> between the English and French terminology. The following from the "NIST
> Time and Frequency FAQ" explains it.
>
> "In 1970 the Coordinated Universal Time system was devised by an
> international advisory group of technical experts within the
International
> Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU felt it was best to designate a
> single abbreviation for use in all languages in order to minimize
> confusion. Since unanimous agreement could not be achieved on using
either
> the English word order, CUT, or the French word order, TUC, the acronym
> UTC was chosen as a compromise."
>
> But UTC is not strictly an acronym because the letter order does not
> correspond to the word order of either French or English.
>
> The announcements on WWV still use the term "Coordinated Universal Time"
> and I imagine the French use their name for it. The notation "GMT"
> is deprecated and has generally been eliminated from all official usage.
>
> >
> >> UTC simply means you have a + or - in \d\d\d\d where the first two
are
> >> hours and the second two minutes format in relation to GMT (UTC
+0000);
> >
> > That's just a way of 'formatting' or 'representing' the UTC time.
>
> No, that indicates local time, not UTC. The +/- is hours difference from
UTC
> instead of using a specific time zone abbrev. which all people are not
> familiar with.
> eg. "13 Dec 2005 10:47:20 -0800" is local time for USA Pacific Standard
> Time, or "PST", which is 8 hours behind UTC.
>
thank you for the clarification. I was under the impression GMT and +0000
were identical but that UTC meant it had the UTC offset in order to allow
someone from another place to understand without looking up an acronym,
which they may not find.I'm not sure how i got the wrong idea but i'm glad
I now know the correct definition.
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