[LEAPSECS] Caveat emptor!

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Apr 12 04:03:35 EDT 2011


In message <7A41C92F-9BEC-4FDC-9809-071F2D624CF3 at batten.eu.org>, Ian Batten wri
tes:


>and thereafter contracts would add "times in

>this contract shall be assumed to be UTC" to the definitions section.


Don't forget that a lot of obscure contracts with large technical
impact already states UTC explicitly: Air Traffic Control, AIS
Vessel tracking, telecoms accounting/settelment, NATO, meteology &c.



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