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I don't get the downvotes. This is precisely the kind of pedantry for which I come to HN.
by JackFr 10y ago
I don't get the downvotes. This is precisely the kind of pedantry for which I come to HN.
- Symbiote 10y agoPerhaps because of the misleading partial quote from Wikipedia. The full sentence is "For most purposes, UTC is considered interchangeable with GMT, but GMT is no longer precisely defined by the scientific community." The ESA website gives all times for the descent ±20 minutes, so GMT, which is ±0.9s from either UTC or UT1, is fine.