In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bill Hawkins" writes: >The WSJ says that the UK still uses GMT. When the NASA person >called out "On my mark..." time during pre-launch activities, >it was specified as GMT. > >What relationship does GMT have to UTx time? The hill in Greenwich >is now just a museum, right?
The difference is that the UK government defines GMT and therefore are not bound by the foibles of UTC if they don't want to be. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
