[LEAPSECS] ISO TC 37

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 18 Jan 2012 at 7:41, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> I am pretty sure that at this point everybody read "GMT" as "UTC" in

> those treaties, if they have not already been fixed.


So, basically:

Using a different name from "UTC" for a future time standard that is 
unmoored from solar time is too problematic to consider, because it 
would make a whole range of real-world stuff suddenly illegal due to 
the multiplicity of laws, treaties, tech standards, etc., that 
specify UTC specifically, and would hence be unable to legally use 
the new standard and would be in trouble if nothing called UTC were 
disseminated any more.

However, the existence of another multiplicity of laws, treaties, 
tech standards, etc. that specifically reference GMT, a time standard 
not actually disseminated presently but presumed to tie to solar 
rather than atomic time, is not a problem because "everybody knows" 
that GMT really means UTC.


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