| Introduced to help with naval navigation when travelling around the world, GMT was once the international civil time standard | Note that the ToLongTimeString, ToShortTimeString, ToLongDateString, and ToShortDateString methods are locale-aware so they return values with the format appropriate for the computer |
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| That is, a time zone will cover the same countries vertically, which is why the UK and South Africa observe the same time | GMT was established in the seventeenth century by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, and it was used by sailors and naval officers as a time reference at different locations around the world |
On the other hand, France, although small in comparison, has as many as 12 different time zones because it still holds territories around the world; bizarrely enough, this means that the sun never sets over France — we bet Louis XIV, or the Sun King, would be amused by this fact.
| However, in the United Kingdom, GMT is still being used for civil purposes, even though not formally | So, if GMT and UTC are the same, why do we need UTC? Meteorologists, remote automated weather stations, and weather maps are also big users of GMT since weather and weather patterns often cross time zones and need to be tracked in real time from remote locations |
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| ToShortDateString ; } The code first uses DateTime | If UTC is a time standard, and GMT is a time zone, why the confusion, and why is UTC and GMT used interchangeably? Because GMT is always the same no matter where in the world you are, it can be very useful for use in real time logging, communications for complex endeavors, and by large organizations |
UTC is very similar to GMT as it is a global constant time that does not change for place or season.
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