[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Greg Hennessy]

On 01/12/2014 02:47 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <52D20BEB.60709 at edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:

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>> Yes, in my opinion its unfortunate they chose to use the term "UTC" in

>> that context.

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> They chose UTC because they meant UTC.

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> I have this directly from multiple persons who were involved back

> then, including Dennis Ritchie who gave me the full sordid details

> about the early UNIX' requirement of weekly recompiles to update

> the epoch of the timekeeping.



If they chose UTC because they meant UTC, then why do the
man pages refer not to UTC, but to GMT?

http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol1/man2.bun

It sounds like you are rewriting history.