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Worst is UTC vs GMT
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UTC is timezone too. It has leap seconds. IAT is atomic time. It is perfect.
I say we ditch this nonsense altogether and go back to vague descriptions of the Sun's position in the sky.
"many moons ago, when the sun was low in the sky..."
Isn't that UT0?
The title partially answers this.
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html
No it doesn't. "Time zones around the world are expressed using positive or negative offsets from UTC, as in the list of time zones by UTC offset."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
Time now in UTC is 10:33, no matter where on the planet you are.
UTC is expressed using positive or negative offset from IAT
That doesn't mean it's a timezone
I'd fuck with atomic time, but at that point i want a perfect calendar system also.
UTC has leap seconds to keep it aligned with earth's rotation. Otherwise all timezones would slowly shift away from having any correlation with solar time. Between UTC and IAT, UTC is the more human-useable and thus better.
The post is about developers.