Timezones

Kannan Varadhan kannan at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Wed Mar 2 04:50:46 AEST 1988


rancke at diku.dk (Hans Rancke-Madsen.) writes:
>In article <418 at cstowe.csoft.co.nz> wdr at cstowe.csoft.co.nz (Bill) writes:
>
>>I have discovered that there is no such thing as GMT time anymore.
>
>Although GMT may not be "official" any more, I maintain that as
>long as someone uses the expression, and other persons still
>understand it, then the concept still exists.
>

Almost all short-wave radio stations (with the notable exception of the
BBC ) call it the UTC.  I would regard them as the primary users of the
term, and there word would lend it the required respectability :-!

KANNAN

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