GMT is the timezone, UTC is the time.

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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?

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