On 09/24/2011 12:01 AM, Steve Allen wrote:
On Fri 2011-09-23T22:53:10 +0200, Tobias Conradi hath writ:
IIRC UTC and not GMT is the basis for most time legislation that is currently in place.
It would be interesting to find reliable indicators about whether UTC or GMT is the basis in any given region. Even recently I've seen official decrees using the geographic terms "meridian" and "Greenwich".
The (semantic) distinction between Greenwich and Universal time is just one of those subtleties that gets usually lost in these parts of the world. The expression "(time) by Greenwich" (/po Grinvichu/) is established in the language (which's why I used it instead of UTC, which was incorrect technically). In fact, the standard nomenclature here (in Russian) is "0th meridian" and "time belts". There are 24 "time belts" (/chasovoy poyas/) approximately corresponding to 15 deg. wide meridianal stripes. As to the potential users: I'd guess that almost the only folks *here* really knowing the meaning of EEST/EEDT abbreviature are the IT specialists and most of the unix users. Windows users know how to select UTC+2 (Minsk,Athens,...) from the list. -Yury