[LEAPSECS] Schedule for success

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Dec 30 21:46:08 EST 2008


In message: <62AE92E0-8CF7-494D-96A4-E1EBAE4BA0E5 at noao.edu>
Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> writes:

: BTW, it is unsurprising that people use UTC and GMT interchangeably,

: since the original CCIR standard said:

:

: "GMT may be regarded as the general equivalent of UT."

:

: This equivalence predates the ITU, and may well outlive the ITU.


But UT and UTC aren't the same thing... So this confusion is between
what we call UT1 and UTC, which differ by hundreds of milliseconds
most of the time...

Warner


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