In message <52d2e6f5.2030...@edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes: >I think I understand you. You are saying that UTC as a term for the
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. -- 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