[tz] [PATCH 1/1] Add UTC to zone tables

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Thu Mar 10 22:22:56 UTC 2016


On Mar 10, 2016, at 2:04 PM, J William Piggott <elseifthen at gmx.com> wrote:

> Given the existing choices in top level menu, where would you look for
> UTC? I think the prime meridian... London/Greenwich. That would be my
> first look.

I'm about 8000 km from the Prime Meridian, and it's now 2016-03-10 22:21 UTC here - just as it is where everybody else on the list is.

*I'd* look for UTC as something completely unconnected to any continent on Earth; as Paul indicates, that's what the "Universal" in "Coordinated Universal Time" means.



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