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.
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