In message <20081231012433.ga14...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >On Tue 2008-12-30T17:57:27 -0700, M. Warner Losh hath writ: >> If rocket-scientists can't get the relatively simple nomenclature of >> this topic right, what hope is there for the average engineer? > >Not enough in the current scenario, given that the ITU-R docs are >proprietary to the point of inaccessability [...]
We're clawing for straws now, aren't we ? :-) http://science.nasa.gov/realtime/rocket_sci/clocks/time-gmt.html States: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) became a time standard in the 19th century for British maritime navigation. [...]. In 1970 the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) system was devised by an international advisory group of technical experts within the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Notice the little tidbit in the grey box: Actually, GMT is measured from noon whereas UTC is measured from midnight. However, few use the noon measurement and refer to GMT as if it were actually UTC. Given that GMT traditionally is a 12h clock, I wonder if that is still the case... Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
