A piece of history from the JPL DSN operations http://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report2/VIII/VIIIT.PDF gives a view into the level of nomenclature confusion that happened around 1972. At that date no CCIR document had used the term "UTC".
Not only does it use "old UTC" and "new UTC", but it also makes "new UTC" synonymous with "IAT" and "A.1", and to the relevant precision all of them interchanged with "GMT". There is also the interesting assertion that in the US the NBS was responsible for frequency and USNO was responsible for time. -- Steve Allen <s...@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
