[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Jan 12 14:33:50 EST 2014


In message <52D2E6F5.2030903 at edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:


>I think I understand you. You are saying that UTC as a term for the


I'm saying that UTC is Universal Time Coordinated, such as defined
and used by telcos for a decade by the time UNIX was written.

What was "inside" UTC didn't mater to them, UTC was the accepted
international timescale and they used it as such.

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