• Jaberw0cky@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 个月前

    Surely UTC is just a newer name for GMT and 0 is Greenwich in England? Since I’m pretty sure the UK came up with the global time zone system in the first place.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      9 个月前

      There is a slight difference, UTC has leap seconds while GMT stretches seconds to compensate for the uneven spin of the Earth.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 个月前

        And computers will get UTC from an ntp server and, in the presence of leap seconds, stretch seconds to not confuse any programs running on it.