Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-20 Thread shaul
> GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal > Coordinated Time--UTC is actually the acronym as it is in French). So > the term GMT is obsolete but the meaning is unchanged. Does Debian knows that ? I mean, does the timezone package, and the rest of the debian distribution, co

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-19 Thread David Wright
While the world no longer sets its clocks to GMT but UTC, GMT is still a local timezone in the sense that EST is. Only its universality is obsolete. On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Bill Leach wrote: > You were told correctly... > > GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal > Coordinate

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-19 Thread Bill Leach
You were told correctly... GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is the same thing as UTC (Universal Coordinated Time--UTC is actually the acronym as it is in French). So the term GMT is obsolete but the meaning is unchanged. > A related timezone question: > > What is the difference between GMT and UTC ? >

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-19 Thread shaul
A related timezone question: What is the difference between GMT and UTC ? I was told that GMT is obsolete, and that UTC is now considered as its successor. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: help me understand timezones

1998-02-18 Thread Adam Klein
On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 02:22:38PM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > > Hi, > > I had several problems with timezones, and for many weeks my clock was > wrong because of daylight savings (even though it said it changed the > clock at that time, looks like it lost this information at the firs

help me understand timezones

1998-02-17 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi, I had several problems with timezones, and for many weeks my clock was wrong because of daylight savings (even though it said it changed the clock at that time, looks like it lost this information at the first boot), and I had no time to dig into this, untill finally I just changed the BIOS c