[NTLUG:Discuss] Timestamp question

[Rusty Haddock]

Jack Snodgrass wrote:
    >On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 05:28, Geremy L. Hamlett wrote:
    >> "date" showes Sun Mar 9 11:24:53 UTC 2003
    >
    >Your sure that's the right time? 
    >"date" on my box shows:
    >Sun Mar  9 11:22:54 CST 2003
    >and since I'm in the Central Time zone, CST is correct. 
    >
    >UTC/GMT is Greenich (sp?) Mean Time. They are 6 hours 
    >behind us here in the CST zone. So your time stamps 

Excuse me but... UTC is 6-hours AHEAD of CST, 5-hours of CDT.
We are 6-hours BEHIND UTC.  Look at the timezone info in your
mail headers -- it says -0600 if it doesn't say CST.

Oh, and it's Greenwich, as in, I believe, the location of the
Royal Observatory in England.  Longitude zero runs right through it.

UTC and GMT are close enough to be called the same by most people.

	-Rusty-
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