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minus-square@Jaberw0cky@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoSurely 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.
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoThere is a slight difference, UTC has leap seconds while GMT stretches seconds to compensate for the uneven spin of the Earth.
minus-square@barsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoAnd 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.
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.
There is a slight difference, UTC has leap seconds while GMT stretches seconds to compensate for the uneven spin of the Earth.
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.