• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    I don’t know if many people share my opinion, but I literally don’t care one bit. Let’s all do UTC across the world, the US needs to be taken down a peg anyway.

    • Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Surely UTC is just a newer name for GMT and 0 is Greenwich in England? Since I’m pretty sure the UK came up with the global time zone system in the first place.

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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        4 days ago

        There is a slight difference, UTC has leap seconds while GMT stretches seconds to compensate for the uneven spin of the Earth.

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          4 days ago

          And computers will get UTC from an ntp server and, in the presence of leap seconds, stretch seconds to not confuse any programs running on it.