Another Forum bug/error

[Ihnako]

The problem is - there is no GMT since GMT and UTC share the same time coordinate but not the same time.
At least every software/hardware/what ever that uses GMT instead of UTC is simply wrong.
GMT is a term back when UK was ruling the seven seas. Beside the facts:
UTC is derived from International Atomic Time (TAI), which is a coordinate time scale tracking notional proper time on the rotating surface of the Earth (the geoid). ...
Because of time dilation, a standard clock not on the geoid, or in rapid motion, will not maintain synchronicity with UTC. Therefore, telemetry from clocks with a known relation to the geoid is used to provide UTC when required, on locations such as those of spacecraft. ...
For most common and legal-trade purposes, the fractional second difference between UTC and UT (GMT) is inconsequentially small, so UTC is often called GMT (for instance, by the BBC).
So we learned UTC != GMT but often called GMT but still not GMT.
And for a software used all around the globe the termn GMT is simpy wrong.
You also won't say pi is 3,14.

Also why are the NA times given in PDT and PST when they could use PST?
For the EU based service it would be BST and GMT then?

[Arcon]

Not sure why it upsets you so much. Of course UTC =/= GMT, otherwise they wouldn't have different names. What I said was:

GMT = UTC for pretty much every relevant purpose, including DST.

And I stand by that. No person would ever notice the difference between the two. UTC is the "correct" time, if you care about the millisecond at which a message was posted on this board. But no one cares, not even you, you just seem to have a philosophical disagreement with the choice.

While the term may come from that era, it doesn't mean that it suggests that political standing. Saying \pi = 3.14 is worse, because it actually affects relevant calculations. This doesn't affect anything, so it can't be compared. In a few more centuries, the two will be a few seconds apart, then it will start becoming relevant (although still no one will care), right now it does nothing. It may be wrong, but it doesn't affect anyone and it doesn't need to be addressed. If there's anything else at all that they could be doing, even recoloring a DRG's wyvern, it would be time better spent than fixing this.