GMT is the timezone, UTC is the time. P
jared r r spiegel wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:17:58PM -0400, Nick ! wrote: > >> On 4/10/07, Markus Bergkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> 'date -u' on a 4.0 -stable will give something like >>> Tue Apr 10 22:03:24 GMT 2007 >>> but shouldn't it be >>> Tue Apr 10 22:03:24 UTC 2007 >>> >> UTC = GMT for all that we care about. >> [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time]] >> > > i could be wrong here, but perhaps he is not suggesting > that there is any wallclock difference between GMT and UTC, > but rather that the manpage for date(1) says: > > --- > -u Display or set the date in UTC (Coordinated Universal) time. > --- > > as opposed to "... date in GMT ...", also as implied by how it is > '-u' and not '-g' > > least, that was my reaction to his post?