[sldev] Looking at I18N formatting standards

[Henri Beauchamp]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:36:04 -0500, Tammy Nowotny wrote:


> .../... Zulu Time (same as UTC and GMT)

Ok, time to be anal... ;-)

Zulu time = UTC (Universal Time Coordinated)

GMT should not be used any more in civil (and military) applications.
This reference (which is based on Earth rotation, and as we now all know,
the rotation of Earth slows down over time and can't therefore be used
for a constant measure).

The only legal (and international) time reference is UTC (which is based
on the atomic clocks measures: over 40 of them located in countries all
around the world, and coordinated in Paris by the "Bureau International
des Poids et Mesures" http://www.bipm.org/en/scientific/tai/time_server.html).

For obvious practical reasons (you don't want midnight UTC to happen
at noon GMT in the far future) UTC is kept within +/- 1s from GMT thanks
to "leap seconds" (one such leap second occured on the new year 2009).

Adn to get back on topic, tt would be great if future time formats in SL
could use UTC everywhere, as they (legally) should...

Regards,

Henri.