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  3. December 2001

GMT/UTC/Paris

I thought it did.  Doesn't a Parisian lunch hour run 2.5 worker bee hours?

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From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of David.X.Kahn@gsk.com
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:48 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Modified time on IFS files wrong

Simon wrote:

> The primary difference between GMT and UTC is that GMT
> is administered by the British and UTC is administered
> by the French.  The move from GMT to UTC was probably
> some concesion forced on the UK by the EU...

The French were never very happy that the prime meridian ran through
Greenwich. They really felt it ought to run through Paris.

Dave...
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