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Re: Accuracy of archie clock/Demon's clock

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From: Garry
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <19950401.073723.42@ramtops.demon.co.uk>,
          dweller@ramtops.demon.co.uk (Doug Weller) wrote:

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> But as Paul Allen has pointed out, GMT is NOT an officially recognized
> timezone.  It should be UTC (French, universal something, now my memory
> is going!)

UTC probably does have a French origin althought I have heard it
anglicized as Universal Time Co-ordinates.   IMHO this is incredibly
pompous and arrogant.   *Universal* ?   Has anyone asked the inhabitants
of the planet Zog ?

-- 
Garry
G4FRO @ GB7IMB.#41.GBR.EU
garry@goldhill.demon.co.uk
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From: garry@goldhill.demon.co.uk (Garry)
Subject: Re: Accuracy of archie clock/Demon's clock
Date: 1995/04/01
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