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From: Dr J R Stockton <reply1206@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
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In comp.lang.javascript message <mGOVL1Hs+TNPFwak@J.A830F0FF37FB96852AD0
8924D9443D28E23ED5CD>, Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:02:52, John G Harris
<john@nospam.demon.co.uk> posted:

>On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 at 18:53:20, in comp.lang.javascript, Dr J R Stockton
>wrote:
>
>  <snip>
>>Servers on the world-wide Internet ought to be set to GMT, or UTC if
>>they can handle it.
>  <snip>
>
>Do you really mean GMT ? The last I heard it takes several months to
>determine the GMT time for a given atomic/UTC time. Also, if time
>servers are tied to national standards they will not be serving GMT and
>are unlikely to be serving a current guess at it.

I do.  They should be set in close agreement, and they should use days
of 24 hours of 60 minutes and 60 seconds only, as most computers ignore
leap seconds.  GMT is not a national standard, but a world-wide one.

It's not necessary for the GMT used to be very close to what, a few
months later, may be decided upon as what it ought to have been.

An alternative, however, would be for then to ignore years ... hours,
and all to use a common scale of SI seconds.

As well as being at fault in the naming getTimezoneOffset, it also errs
in using UTC within the names of Date methods, since it ignores Leap
Seconds. (in any case, there should be only one Method for each of the
existing pairs like getHours & getUTChours - see js-dobj2.htm & DATE2.

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