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I was a 14 year old who attended the initial launch at MIT. I remember at the time thinking: why have a random synthetic time, perhaps we can just accept GMT as

by xxcode 13y ago

I was a 14 year old who attended the initial launch at MIT. I remember at the time thinking: why have a random synthetic time, perhaps we can just accept GMT as internet time. I still don't understand why you'd have Beil Mean Time - perhaps I haven't grown.

dfc 13y ago
What would the internet time be when GMT areas are on BST? Surely you mean accept UTC time.
- KC8ZKF 13y ago
  GMT doesn't change twice a year. GMT doesn't mean "the time people in Greenwich observe", it means, roughly, the solar mean time of Greenwich.
  - dfc 13y ago
    Who uses GMT in the summer? My bigger point is that metrologists and/or people that care about time use UTC not GMT.