In message <52d2f909.9080...@edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes: >> 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. >> >Oh, I see - the "telcos". How do they define it? Is there a standard or >guideline they use, or is it just "common practice"?
The main reason CCITT got into UTC standardisation, was to make it possible to precisely schedule and bill international tele-traffic. -- 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
