Re: Time

Subject: Re: Time
From: William E Newkirk <wenewkir -at- MBNOTES -dot- CCA -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 09:56:09 -0400

UMT a "standard" in the USA. It is? Since when?

UTC/Zulu/GMT already exist and are "well known".

Why use something new?


Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 09:05:32 -0600
From: David Dvorkin <dvorkin -at- BOLIX -dot- COM>
Subject: Re: Time
I wrote:
>In the U.S., it's now standard to call this UMIT, for
>Universal Mean Time, presumably so that Anglophobes
>won't get huffy.
Ack. UMT, of course, not UMIT.

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