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Started by Bill
Wed, 24 Feb 1988 05:14
Timezones
Author: Bill
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1988 05:14
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1988 05:14
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Hi there Netlanders, Time for a little summary of the replies I got about timezones: Now I know all about timezones :-). I have discovered that there is no such thing as GMT time anymore. It has become Universal Time (UT) or Universal Coordinated Time (UCT) depending on who sent the reply. The appropriate references are ANSI Standard X3.51-1975 and ISO 4031, neither of which I have not got hold of (bit difficult out here) so I can't exactly say which of UT or UCT is the `correct' one. It turns out that Unix is backwards with respect to RFC822 (ANSI/ISO etc) time. Mail headers should have +nnnn if the sending site is East of Greenwich. The Unix timezone offset requires the offset to be -nnnn. All I need to do now is to hack about with smail to get it to shove the appropriate stuff on our mail headers, yeeHarr :->. See Y'all Later, and Thanx for the memories. ----- Praise the Employers for they do not know what I say but pay for the resources. ----- Bill D. Ryder ...!uunet!vuwcomp!dsiramd!pnamd!cstowe!wdr Phone 063-65955 (IDD 64) or wdr@csoft.co.nz Commercial Software N.Z. Ltd., PO Box 4030 Palmerston North, Aotearoa (New Zealand if want to use snail mail)
Re: Timezones
Author: Hans Rancke-Madsen.
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 12:24
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 12:24
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In article <418@cstowe.csoft.co.nz> wdr@cstowe.csoft.co.nz (Bill) writes:
>I have discovered that there is no such thing as GMT time anymore.
Although GMT may not be "official" any more, I maintain that as
long as someone uses the expression, and other persons still
understand it, then the concept still exists.
(Denmark went metric a *loooong* time ago, but you can still
buy butter by the pound here).
Hans Rancke, University of Copenhagen
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Re: Re: Timezones
Author: Keld J|rn Simonsen
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 13:31
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 1988 13:31
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I think the new term for GMT is UTC - Universal Time Coordinated, not UCT. It is going to be incorporated in the new ISO C standard instead of the GMT.
Re: Timezones
Author: Kannan Varadhan
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 18:50
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 18:50
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rancke@diku.dk (Hans Rancke-Madsen.) writes: >In article <418@cstowe.csoft.co.nz> wdr@cstowe.csoft.co.nz (Bill) writes: > >>I have discovered that there is no such thing as GMT time anymore. > >Although GMT may not be "official" any more, I maintain that as >long as someone uses the expression, and other persons still >understand it, then the concept still exists. > Almost all short-wave radio stations (with the notable exception of the BBC ) call it the UTC. I would regard them as the primary users of the term, and there word would lend it the required respectability :-! KANNAN -- email: kannan@ohio-state.arpa | ....!cbosgd!tut!kannan snail: Kannan Varadhan 306, W. Lane Ave., # 15, Columbus, OH 43201 voice: (614) 297-8720
Re: Re: Timezones
Author: Doug Gwyn
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 22:06
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1988 22:06
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In article <3692@diku.dk> keld@diku.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes: >I think the new term for GMT is UTC - Universal Time Coordinated, >not UCT. UTC is the symbol but Coordinated Universal Time is the English name.
Re: Re: Timezones
Author: Lee Mellinger
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1988 20:37
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1988 20:37
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In article <7393@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
:In article <3692@diku.dk> keld@diku.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes:
:>I think the new term for GMT is UTC - Universal Time Coordinated,
:>not UCT.
:
:UTC is the symbol but Coordinated Universal Time is the English name.
The BIH, in english the International Bureau of Time is headquartered in
Paris, France more than ten years ago changed the ordinary time standard
from GMT to UTC, as well as some of technical specifications as to how
it is calculated. There are several time standards, UTC, UT1 and UT2 and others
depending on how they are measured.
Lee
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Re: Timezones
Author: Ed Wright
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 05:54
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1988 05:54
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In article <7516@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> kannan@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Kannan Varadhan) writes: >rancke@diku.dk (Hans Rancke-Madsen.) writes: >>In article <418@cstowe.csoft.co.nz> wdr@cstowe.csoft.co.nz (Bill) writes: >>>I have discovered that there is no such thing as GMT time anymore. >Almost all short-wave radio stations (with the notable exception of the >BBC ) call it the UTC. I would regard them as the primary users of the >term, and there word would lend it the required respectability :-! for what its worth... most of them if not say "Universal Coordinated Time" UTC? UCT ? its 17:00 somewhere i believe i'll have another beer Ed Wright KA9AHQ >>>>>> ucbvax--\ I used to be disgusted >>>>>>>> sun--->----zehntel !edw>/dev/null :-) Now >>>>>> varian--/ I'm just amused.
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