Arnold, Arnold Tibus skrev: > Magnus and all, > > interestlingly the discussion about GMT seem to be a never ending > story, all over the world. As I know GMT was already renamed in > the year 1925 ( or 1928 acc. other source ) to UT and > "universal time coordinated" (U T C) (that) is standard since > January 1, 1972. acc. "About the Time" : > > http://www.fai.org/astronautics/time.asp , > look into the short overview to this history. > > "Does anyone know the exact difference between GMT and UTC?" > - this question seem to be already very old, Magnus.
Um. That's not the question I am asking. > Richard B. Langley wrote a summary trying to give the right > answer with "A Few Facts Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO ". > > His article can be found here: > http://www.apparent-wind.com/gmt-explained.html > > It summarizes: > "The Greenwich mean time, GMT, has today only an historical > interest. It has been abandoned since the thirties for successively > the T U 1, the T U 2 and finally, in 1972, for the much more regular > universal time coordinated, U T C, that must be used > for all present use." ! > > That is what I thought as well quite a while. > But I had to change ever so often all kind of scientific and > technical units, and I see the need to adopt it, I am sure we have > to be open for more steps into the future. Learning will never end...! You brings me no new knowledge, only a few more links, which I suspect repeats what my sources already says to me. I already know what GMT is in the several senses it is. For me it is clearly not UTC, except for the GMT transmissions done by BBC. I object to the use of GMT when it should say UTC, they should not be used interchangeably when talking about international time. The question I am asking is really about which is the time-scale accepted for national time in various countries. So far: UTC based: France, Sweden GMT based (UT1?): Great Brittian, Denmark I suspect several countries (such as US, Germany etc. etc) to be UTC based, but I do not know for sure. As you see, this is a quite different question then asking about "what is GMT" or "what timezone is country X". Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
