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hard candy
04-29-2004, 12:20 PM
A previous thread (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67039&perpage=15&highlight=daylight%20savings%20time&pagenumber=1) discussed this in 2002. I set my time to Atlantic to make it right but I imagine it would be hard to separate the DST users from the non-DST users.
But I just checked and Antionline which is part of Jupiter and Internet.com will show the correct time.

bproffitt
04-29-2004, 05:35 PM
We are on Greenwich Mean Time, (ZULU) all year. No DST ever, I fear.

Peace,
Brian

stiles
04-29-2004, 07:12 PM
hehe GMT, Brian your old school (and probably x military). I would venture you guess you on UTC which is based on cesium atoms and adjusted by coordinate yearly unlike GMT which is based on the motion of the mean sun with respect to zero degrees longitude through the Greenwich Observatory. GMT hasn't been used since the late 20's and GMT is used as a synonym for UT1 (which is a measure of the true angular orientation of the earth in space and is used to adjust UTC, fun leap seconds, and to think we were taught that time was a constant) but also is used to mean UTC. As you can see GMT isn't the best term to use because it can have dual meanings depending on who you are talking to, but what's .9 seconds between friends :D

The forum software could have a variable offset to adjust for DST (maybe antionline uses different software?) but it is probably a missing feature here.

bproffitt
04-30-2004, 12:35 AM
Not ex-military, current private pilot. Call it what you will, we're sticking to it. :)

BKP