Elliott Hird on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:46:44 -0700 (MST) |
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Re: [s-d] [s-b] This game is boring, let's have an Emergency. |
On 19 December 2010 00:46, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > compsciguy wrote: > >> It also runs on GMT, not UTC, but the merits of running on one or the other are >> debatable. > > There's a difference, besides the names? Â*looks up* ÂWell, no practical > difference; e-mail only has one-second granularity, whereas GMT and UTC > differ by at most 0.9 seconds at any moment. Actually, GMT has no formal definition nowadays; it is either the mean time over the blah blah blah at Greenwich -- which *nobody* uses -- or UTC. I used to think that GMT was like UTC but without leap seconds. I was wrong. They are identical. _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss