Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT cfg_local.pm
Erik Trulsson <[email protected]>
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On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:30:37PM -1000, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 23:16, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Mathieu Arnold <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > +-le 25/05/2004 09:04 +0000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav a dit : > > > | des 2004/05/25 09:04:51 GMT > > > > > > You said it'll be UTC, now, we have GMT ;-) > > > > Yeah, well :) GMT is UTC plus leap second corrections. Our UTC time > > zone is actually called "Etc/UTC", but invalid time zones are treated > > as GMT, so specifying "UTC" works, for sufficiently fuzzy values of > > "works". > > Especially since there don't actually appear to be any leap seconds :) > > [inchoate 12:30] ~ >env TZ=Etc/UTC date ; env TZ=foo date > Tue May 25 22:30:10 UTC 2004 > Tue May 25 22:30:10 GMT 2004 UTC and GMT are equivalent. GMT used to be defined based on astronomical observations but is now used as a synonym for UTC. UTC is based on TAI, which is a timescale based on atomic clocks, but with leap seconds added when appropriate to keep UTC in sync with the earth's rotation and astronomical observations. See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part3/section-4.html for more information on various time standards. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-projects To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"