[HECnet] How long has your 20 been up?

[Paul Koning]

> On Jan 20, 2022, at 12:20 PM, Peter Lothberg <roll at stupi.com> wrote:
> 
> GMT is solar time! (and not used...)

Not quite.  The acronym actually says that it is not solar time, it's Greenwich MEAN Time.  UTC is merely the new name for GMT, obviously adopted to keep the French from fulminating.  (It's amusing that, just like "ISO", UTC isn't an acronym; it matches neither the English nor the French initials.)

On Thomas DeBellis's observation that system programmers don't understand long arithmetic, that's obviously not true for PDP-11 programmers.  (You can't deal with non-tiny disks if you don't understand this.) 

	paul