Peter J. Holzer said: > On 2007-07-03 08:57, Richard Heathfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Paul Rubin said: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>>> As for the primacy of UTC vs. TAI, this is the classical chicken >>>> and >>>> egg problem. The bureaucratic reality is opposed to the physical >>>> reality. >>> >>> Well, if you're trying to pick just one timestamp standard, I'd say >>> you're better off using a worldwide one rather than a national one, >>> no matter how the bureaucracies work. >> >> In that case, the obvious choice is Greenwich Mean Time. :-) > > Hardly. That hasn't been in use for over 35 years (according to > Wikipedia).
Nonsense. I use it every day, and have been doing so for - well, rather more than 35 years. >> Seriously, GMT is recognised all over the world (far more so, in >> fact, than UTC, which tends to be recognised only by some >> well-educated people, and there are precious few of those), so why >> not use it? > > While the layman may recognize the term "GMT", he almost certainly > means "UTC" when he's talking about GMT. Most people of my acquaintance who use the term "GMT" mean precisely that - Greenwich Mean Time. <snip> >> I always leave my PC's clock set to GMT, > > Your PC is directly linked to an observatory? Nope. My PC *defines* GMT. If the observatory wants to know what the exact time is, they only have to ask. -- Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk> Email: -www. +rjh@ Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php> "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list