In message: <62ae92e0-8cf7-494d-96a4-e1ebae4ba...@noao.edu>
            Rob Seaman <sea...@noao.edu> writes:
: BTW, it is unsurprising that people use UTC and GMT interchangeably,  
: since the original CCIR standard said:
: 
:       "GMT may be regarded as the general equivalent of UT."
: 
: This equivalence predates the ITU, and may well outlive the ITU.

But UT and UTC aren't the same thing...  So this confusion is between
what we call UT1 and UTC, which differ by hundreds of milliseconds
most of the time...

Warner
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