[LBo] Re: Introducing myself...

[Jisao]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:53:13 +0200, Karin Westerbeek wrote 
> 
> And a question, I just read about the planned chat Thursday October, 
> 19th. 2006 at 20:00 UTC, but what's UTC again? 
> 
> Ciao, 
> 
> Karin 

What used to be called Greenwich.   

« What does the UTC abbreviation mean? 
Coordinated Universal Time, the official measure of time in the world, which 
is independent from the time zones. Such a measure is calculated as a 
statistical average of several worldwide atomic clocks and it's periodically 
corrected by adding or subtracting the "Leap Second" to keep the difference 
between UTC and Earth rotation time below 0.9 seconds. In practice UTC 
corresponds to the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the mean solar time of the 
zero meridian crossing Greenwitch (Great Britain).» 
Source:  http://www.eurometeo.com/english/read/doc_faq/id_Utc 

It means that local time for the chat is + or - the number of hours off 8 
p.m. UTC.  For instance, in summer, in the Eastern Standard Time Zone, the 
course is at 4 p.m. 

Jisao