[16710] in Athena Bugs
Re: What is Athena RCS using for a timestamp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Feb 15 00:42:32 1999
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:42:26 -0500 (EST)
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[16705] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| Ok Thanks. I'd forgotten GMT was +5 not +6.
| Is "GMT" an appropriate suffix for timestamps displayed in Greenwich
| Mean Time? RCS offers no suffix. :-(
No. UTC is the correct suffix, despite the widespread misuse of the
term "GMT".
"date -u" is a useful command to remember.
--jhawk
[mary-kay-commandos!jhawk] ~> date
Mon Feb 15 00:40:46 EST 1999
[mary-kay-commandos!jhawk] ~> date -u
Mon Feb 15 05:40:47 GMT 1999
[mary-kay-commandos!jhawk] ~>
OPTIONS
-u Display (or set) the date in Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT-universal time), bypassing the normal
conversion to (or from) local time.
