Tom Van Baak wrote on 2003-02-16 02:25 UTC: > http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/investigation/timeline/index.html > > I've been reading a lot of NASA pages on the shuttle > recently and was reminded once again that NASA > seems to use "GMT" instead of "UTC" to label their > timelines. Do any of you know why?
Probably mostly for US domestic media convenience. :-( The average US journalist might be slightly more likely to have heard of GMT than of Universal Time. [Similarly, these pages use Flintstone units everywhere (Fahrenheit instead of Celsius for temperatures; feet instead of meters; etc.)] Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__
