Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Media Contacts for TDF

Hi.

My job (professionally speaking), has a lot to do with measuring time and
time standards. Maybe, it doesn't make much sense to the marketing area, but
UTC is a global standard, used for all national time institutes around the
world. It can confuse some people, indeed, but it will be more end more
used, in the future.

Cheers.

2011/6/8 Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>

> Ok,
> UTC (short for Co-ordinated Universal Time, or rather "Universal Time,
> Co-ordinated") does make more sense to me now than GMT.  As Simon Phipps
> pointed
> out GMT does confuse people sometimes.  Unix time is almost in sync with
> UTC but
> UTC does seem to be used much more widely even if 'normal' users are
> unlikely to
> have heard of it.  UTC is easy to look-up too :)
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@gmail.com>
> To: marketing@libreoffice.org
> Sent: Wed, 8 June, 2011 12:15:28
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Media Contacts for TDF
>
> On 6/8/11 1:00 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> > Perhaps GMT might be better than UTC?  (Is UTC an American thing or a
> Unix
> > thing? Answers to that off-list if at all please)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
>
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