On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:54 PM, John Hawkinson <jh...@mit.edu> wrote:
> In other news, the count of the number of times in this thread folks
> have said "Universal Time Coordinated" instead of "Coordinated
> Universal Time" is higher than I would expect. (Coordinated Universal
> Time is the proper expansion of UTC, for international compromise
> reasons). I feel like this is similar to the times people say "GMT"
> when they mean "UTC," and possibly for similar reasons.
For diplomatic and legal usage, see also:
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/preprints/files/8_AAS%2013-505_Gabor.pdf
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/preprints/files/9_AAS%2013-505discussion.pdf
and:
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/2011/preprints/04_AAS_11-662_Seago.pdf
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/2011/preprints/05_AAS_11-662_discuss_2.pdf
Rob
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