[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <52D2F909.9080702 at edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:


>> 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.

>>

>Oh, I see - the "telcos". How do they define it? Is there a standard or 

>guideline they use, or is it just "common practice"?


The main reason CCITT got into UTC standardisation, was to make it
possible to precisely schedule and bill international tele-traffic.

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