And yet googling "greenwich mean time" returns 5,250,000 results (353,000,000
for "gmt" but an unknown number are false positives) including many sites like:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx
that equate UTC with GMT. As well as things like:
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/
that perpetuate the brand as being actually tied to Greenwich and Britain in
general.
Which is it? Does GMT == UTC? Or does it continue to mean what it says, mean
solar time at Greenwich? It can't be both in a post-leap second world. That
it was deprecated for various technical purposes (not, apparently, all) does
not mean it doesn't remain widely used.
Rob
--
On Jan 4, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
> Rob Seaman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> It seems quite possible that the plan is similarly "to get rid of" GMT.
>> Indeed, how can GMT continue to have a coherent meaning afterwards?
>
> GMT was discontinued decades ago and has not had a coherent meaning for
> even longer.
>
> Tony.
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