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From: mitch@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Message-ID: <2785@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 07:55:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 07:55:46 1987
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Reply-To: mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
Organization: Program of Computer Graphics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
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In article <1362@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>HORRORS!  What do you think this is, a colony of the British Empire?
>It's bad enough that the quaint ancient practice of referring to Her
>Majesty's Royal Greenwich Observatory's local time as a standard hasn't
>died yet.  Worse, you folks now want modern, state-of-the-art operating
>systems such as VMS to be defiled in this manner.

Then how about if we instead use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)?  This
is the time broadcast by the National Bureau of Standards from Fort Collins
and Honolulu as a time standard for the U.S.  And, oh yes, it just happens
to correspond to GMT, but does not suffer from DST changes.

-Mitch Collinsworth
 mitch@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu