Timezones

root at uokmet.UUCP root at uokmet.UUCP
Wed Mar 2 04:05:00 AEST 1988


>I have discovered that there is no such thing as GMT time anymore. It
>has become Universal Time (UT) or Universal Coordinated Time (UCT)
>depending on who sent the reply.  The appropriate references are ANSI
>Standard X3.51-1975 and ISO 4031, neither of which I have not got hold
>of (bit difficult out here) so I can't exactly say which of UT or UCT
>is the `correct' one.

Meteorologists still refer to GMT, though journal articles refer to it
as UTC.

	== kwthomas ==



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