Wow! Look at all the helpful replies!

LOL

JJP

Having been amused by the posts so far I had a quick look for GMT/UTC info and found the following link

[Link: liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov]

Switches into teacher mode-

On this page it says the following:
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) became a time standard in the 19th century for British maritime navigation. Greenwich, England was established as the "Prime Meridian" (longitude = 0 degrees) and the Royal Observatory was built at Greenwich. In 1970 the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) system was devised by an international advisory group of technical experts within the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Based on GMT, but to be a worldwide standard, the ITU felt it was best to designate a single abbreviation for use in all languages. As a compromise, UTC was chosen.

A side note says the following about the difference between GMT/UTC
"Actually, GMT is measured from noon whereas UTC is measured from midnight. However, few use the noon measurement and refer to GMT as if it were actually UTC."

Here ends todays lesson

Trevor


PS Hope this is also helpful JohnP

This message was edited by Trevor on 11/21/01 08:07.17.

Thereby hangs a tale! Now all we need to know is when Daniel is going to set his clock to UTC then we'll all know what time of day it is (or night come to that!)
Mike

[Link: greenwichmeantime.com]

"The concept of standard time was adopted in the late 19th century in an attempt to end the confusion that was caused by each community's use of its own solar time. Some such standard became increasingly necessary with the development of rapid railway systems and the consequent confusion of schedules that used scores of different local times kept in separate communities. (Local time varies continuously with change in longitude.)

The need for a standard time was felt most particularly in the United States and Canada, where several extensive railway routes passed through places that differed by several hours in local time.

Sir Sandford Fleming, a Canadian railway planner and engineer, outlined a plan for worldwide standard time in the late 1870s."

there is a lot more on their page

Plus this might be interesting
[Link: greenwichmeantime.com]
it is amazing how many things changed that day. (more then just the birth of GMT

You guys!!

This is all very clever, but we all know there are two kinds of time--A.M. and P.M.

Joel.
You raise another point with this posting! AM is anti meridian and PM is post meridian. The meridian is aligned thru Greenwich; so how do you guys know what time of day it is?

This message was edited by Hermoder on 11/21/01 12:45.26.

All I know is that there's no time like the present.

That I did not know.

But like you said, meridian and not prime meridian. I would guess (and it is only a guess) that meridian is meant for the local one, and not the meidian through Greenwich UK.

It's TIME to move on.

JJP

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
ATTRIBUTION: Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. III, 4). . .

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
ATTRIBUTION: Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. III, 8). . .


Man, as they see him, is a creature trapped between two voids, prenatal and posthumous, on a shrinking spit of sand he calls time.


Time rushes by and yet time is frozen. Funny how we get so exact about time at the end of life and at its beginning. She died at 6:08 or 3:46, we say, or the baby was born at 4:02. But in between we slosh through huge swatches of time—weeks, months, years, decades even.
ATTRIBUTION: Helen Prejean, U.S. nun and activist


Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
ATTRIBUTION: T.S. Eliot


But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do
Once you find them
ATTRIBUTION: Jim Croce


Catch that magic moment, do it
Right here and now
ATTRIBUTION: Van Halen