While the world no longer sets its clocks to GMT but UTC, GMT is still a local timezone in the sense that EST is. Only its universality is obsolete.
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > You were told correctly... > > GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal > Coordinated Time--UTC is actually the acronym as it is in French). So > the term GMT is obsolete but the meaning is unchanged. > > > A related timezone question: > > > > What is the difference between GMT and UTC ? > > I was told that GMT is obsolete, and that UTC is now considered as its > > successor. > Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
