UTC/Talk

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