title: Why is GMT the standard for computer time instead of UTC?
body: <p>It feels to me like everywhere I've seen time related algorithms in programming, GMT was the base time. For example, I was told to always store time in a DB in GMT+00 so that time zone changes don't disrupt anything.</p>
  
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  <li><p>Am I right that GMT seems to be the base time zone in software development?</p></li>
  <li><p>If so, why not UTC? Why is it not common to say "UTC+01" instead of "GMT+01" considering that even Unix timestamps are defined from UTC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time)</p></li>
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