Posted by Snef on 12/17/20 11:54

as far as I understand (and use): yes

Marcus wrote:
> Snef wrote:
>> As far as i have read, UTC is the 'new' GMT. When you see the output
>> of gmdate, you will see that the result is in UTC.
>>
>> Snef
>>
>
> Sorry to beat a dead horse here, but from what you are saying and the
> documentation I've read, does that mean that the only real difference is
> UTC is more accurate in its precision for a timestamp, such as if I want
> to know the time right now it might be slightly more accurate to the
> "official" time?
>
> In other words, if I just want a representation for May 5, 2007 at 12:00
> pm (or any other future time), are GMT and UTC identical and just as
> good as each other? (i.e. I don't care if it reports this exact moment
> in time as 1 microsecond off of whatever the atomic clock says, I just
> want a reliable way of representing various future points in time via
> timestamps that aren't affected by daylight saving).
>
> Thanks.

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