Double summer time?

[Temlakos]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>
>   
>> This is why one really wants to run the pc in UTC.
>>     
>
> I've never really understood this question asked during installation:
> "Does your computer use UTC" (or something like that).
> How does one determine the answer?
>   
Make sure you know what UTC stands for: Universal Time, Coordinated.

By international convention, UTC is the old Greenwich Mean Time (or 
Greenwich Meridian Time), /unchanged/ for summer rules. Today GMT means 
strictly "British standard time" and is the time observed in London, 
England, during the winter. During the summer London moves its clocks an 
hour ahead, and calls this time British Summer Time.

In order to avoid confusion, the GMT by "winter time rules" is now 
called UTC. That's a time that will never change.

I use UTC on all of my Linux systems. The management of the offsets is 
simply easier.

Temlakos


PS: For any of you who are US Military, UTC = Zulu time. I can't speak 
for Irish Republican convention, or for those of Her Majesty's Navy.