[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Tony Finch]

Greg Hennessy <greg.hennessy at cox.net> wrote:

> On 01/12/2014 05:12 PM, Warner Losh wrote:

>

> > GMT and UTC were used interchangeably well into the 1990s, especially in

> > publication not subject to peer review of subject experts...

>

> People still use them interchangeably TODAY, however the people doing so are

> incorrect.


The Royal Greenwich Observatory used GMT to mean UTC(RGO) from 1972.
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/RGO_history/rgo_home_ch5.html

Tony.
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