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What time is it?
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Nov 9, 15:47 -0500
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2004 Nov 9, 15:47 -0500
No, really. I'm having a moment of confusion over this. Nov. 09, 20:42:00 UTC is the same as Nov. 09, 03:42:00 PM EST according to USNO.NAVY.MIL, and they should know. But I thought there was no daylight savings time correction to UTC, and "EST" is "Eastern Saving Time" (clocks moved an hour behind real time) in the eastern US now. Or, is this another instance of a difference between GMT and UTC, where UTC changes but GMT doesn't? Can someone unconfuse me on how US times, UTC, and GMT all do or don't vary with Daylight Slavings Time?
