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In message <19950331.235318.06@compton.demon.co.uk> Tom Hughes wrote:

> But +0100 is a recognised timezone, and that's what TTFN puts on. The news
> server still rewrite it as GMT.

There have been many postings on this topic, and the above was picked more
or less at random.

Like all radio amateurs throughout the World, I log and timestamp everything
in GMT, or Universal Co-ordinated Time as we now call it to keep the French
happy - they always resented GMT and didn't recognize it officially for a
long time. If everyone logged in local time, it would things hideously
complicated, for reasons which I won't bore you with.

So, everything in this 'shack' runs UTC! No problems with timezones etc.,
but I am occasionally an hour late for appointments in the summer.   :-)
Presumably UTC stands for Universal Temps Co-ordinatee or something like
that; I always was lousy at French language.

In radio datacomms, you sometimes see GMT/BST represented by the letter "z",
eg 19:00z, and I am told this is a reference to the Zero Meridian, which of
course passes through Greenwich. So now you know. What you will do with this
new-found knowledge I cannot say!

I know it's April 1st, but this is *not* a windup.

'73' as we radio amateurs say, for reasons lost in obscurity.

-- 
Richard Sterry, Wakefield, UK

 E-mail: richard@waveg.demon.co.uk    AX25: G4BLT@GB7WRG.#19.GBR.EU