Re: Internet Time, GMT, UTC et.c.

1999-02-25 Thread John Shepherd
Slawomir K. Grzechnik wrote: 2. Paris meridian, or rather opposition to Greenwhich Meridian, was still seriously raised on international conferences before the First World War. French lost the Prime Meridan finally but won meters, liters and kilograms, very useful BTW, not yet in the US. In

Re: Internet Time, GMT, UTC et.c.

1999-02-25 Thread Slawomir K. Grzechnik
Hello Malcolm, Richard, Gordon, Bill, John, John, Fernando et. al. I must say that I track with pleasure this off topic subject. Yes, time was and is very emotional issue. 1. I would not worry about Internet Time, the name is a marketing trick. In reality time service on the Internet is taken

Re: Internet Time, GMT, UTC et.c.

1999-02-25 Thread Tom Semadeni
Hello Slawomir, Tremendous post. Slawomir K. Grzechnik wrote: In reality time service on the Internet is taken very seriously these days. Most servers use internally UTC (GMT) and are synchronized through the net which is not that simple if you take into account variable route and time of