Typical - Frogs and Yanks take over the universe! Andy Greener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 23 Dec 2007, at 17:28, David Cragg wrote:
> I'm with you there! Mind you the world now calls our GMT - Universal > Time or UT - which must annoy the French and Germans who probably > resent Greenwich being placed at the centre of the Universe and, in > the name of EU conformity, want us to swap to European (as in > Berlin) time. Err, think again. UTC (so named as a compromise between the English Coordinated Universal Time and the French Temps Universel Coordonné) is not GMT, though it is close enough for most purposes. UTC is controlled by the International Telecommunication Union and administered by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (you can see where this is going can't you...) in Paris and the US Naval Observatory. -- Andy Greener n.b. Whisper Pangbourne, UK http://www.nb-whisper.com "Standards are an endurance sport." --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
