Talk:Coordinated Universal Time/Archive 1

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Things are getting confusing; we now have article pages for:

Greenwich Mean Time (redirected to UTC)

GMT (redirected to UTC)

UTC

Universal time

Considering:

 * GMT is an obsolete mean solar time, and not equal to UTC.


 * UTC is a special case of Universal Time


 * UTC is based on atomic clocks and only indirectly on the Earth's rotation


 * UTC IS the central timezone for clock time

I propose the following:

 * Redirect GMT to Greenwich Mean Time


 * In the Greenwich Mean Time article, put all the stuff on solar time; refer to UTC


 * Keep UTC, as it belongs to all the other articles for timezones. Describe its use and implementation based on atmic clocks.  Just mention GMT, atomic time, leap seconds; but for all technicalities refer to the Universal Time page.


 * In the Universal Time page, describe all the technical differences between the various flavours of UT.

-- Tompeters

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Substituted at 20:21, 2 May 2016 (UTC)