Success! FC6 and AMD64 problems

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue May 15 17:54:39 UTC 2007


Robert Locke wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 15:31 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>

> 
>> Incidentally, who changed GMT to UTC?
>> Whoever it was, they should be shipped to Guantanamo.
>>
> 
> Gotta love standards groups.  I presume the anti-anglo-empire folks.
> Isn't Greenwich the center of the universe? ;-)
> 
> --Rob
> 

http://www.apparent-wind.com/gmt-explained.html
A quick search shows that GMT isn't accurate and that the definition for 
GMT can very by up to 0.9 seconds.

More reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time

Standards are there to make things easier.  When will the US join the 
Metric System?   But that is off topic.  :)

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