Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole
by excalibur on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:58AM
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The suggestion is that they would all agree on UTC 0 not because it's their current time zone, but just for ease of coordination. They could choose any time zone for this purpose if they all agreed on it, GMT just happens to be the most universally recognized and least biased option.
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Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole
by jwandborg on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:17AM
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Strictly, GMT is not the same as UTC. Ironically, GMT is often used as a synonym for UTC by English speakers (the English bias being the irony).
Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole
by dntbnmpls on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:20PM
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> The suggestion is that they would all agree on UTC 0 not because it's their current time zone, but just for ease of coordination.
That wasn't the suggestion at all. The parent used words he doesn't understand. He has no idea what UTC is, just like you. And rather than reading the article, learning about UTC and trying to understand the issue, people with a superficial understanding just downvote and comment nonsense.
UTC is like floating point numbers, people who just superficially come across it think they know what it is but when they talk about it, you can clearly tell they had no idea what it really is. I've done my best. Can lead a horse to water but can't force him to drink it.
> That wasn't the suggestion at all.
It was clearly the poster's intent, regardless of whether they articulated it to your satisfaction. You can have your pedantic victory about the definition of UTC. Enjoy. And stay safe.