[Asterisk-Dev] cvs-head July 11 - Hung, no errors

[Jim Van Meggelen]

asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 July 2005 15:59, Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
>> asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote:
>>>>> Looks like the clock in show version is off by the timezone
>>>>> offset. I'm at 5 hours diff, and I assumed the show
>>>>> version clock was in local time (as opposed to gmt).
>>>> 
>>>> It's intentional, otherwise we can't interpret anyone's
>>>> 'show version' output without also knowing what timezone
>>>> the build computer was set to when the build was done.
>>> 
>>> No biggie, but can we add 'gmt' into the show version?
>> 
>> Isn't GMT deprecated? Should be UTC, IIRC.
> 
> I'm sure the people of Greenwich will be greatly alarmed to
> hear of the impending doom of their local time.  ;-)

Greenwich's local time (Europe/London) is not at risk. It's their mean
time that has been rendered obsolete--for many years, as a matter of
fact. Most people are familar with Greenwich Mean Time, but Universal
Time Coordinated (or "zulu" time) has been the official world reference
time for many years. GMT was officially laid to rest over 30 years ago,
if memory serves correctly. Now if they had a vote tomorrow, I'd say
let's give GMT another chance. UTC is just so clinical. Still, in the
interest of propriety, zulu time (UTC) has replaced Greenwich (GMT). We
don't have to like it (nor do the fine folks of Greenwich), but we have
to live with it. 

They still own the Prime Meridian, after all, so we don't need to feel
too sorry for them ;-)

Jim.


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