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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.mail
Subject: Re: What time is it?
Message-ID: <5412@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 08:18:12 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  7 08:18:12 1983
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Organization: Math.Centre, Amsterdam
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Long time ago wise men agreed the world needed some kind of time standard.
So they got together and created it. They called it Greenwich Mean Time
and it served men's purpose. Long, long time after that, when the war machine
was spreading all over this planet and entered outer (?) space, the military
- as usual - thought they could come up with something better. That they
called ARPA standard and it served THEIR purpose.
Then UNIX came into existence and it adopted GMT. And a news system was
developed for it and for some reason adopted ARPA standard.

Now, pray tell, what is this network meant for?
A military network spreading the Gospel of the Gun?
Or a civil network for the spreading of Knowledge?
Well then, let's stick to UNIX's timebase, the good old, simple and civil,
GMT standard.
-- 
	Piet Beertema
	Center for Math. & Comp. Science, Amsterdam
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