As part of some research on a different topic, I came across a
summary of the 1980 plenary meeting of CCITT, where appearantly the
CCITT formally decided to switch from GMT to UTC.
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Tom Van Baak wrote:
Does anyone know much time ISO spends defining leap days,
or does everyone just take them for granted? Is there official
text on the definition.
ISO 8601 fully defines the Gregorian calendar, including the complete
leap day rule. It says relatively little about leap seconds
David Malone wrote:
These two papers, both from the November issue of The Astronomy
Journal, may be of interest to people here.
DOES RELATIVISTIC TIME DILATION CONTRIBUTE TO THE DIVERGENCE OF
UNIVERSAL TIME AND EPHEMERIS TIME?
Gérard Petit et al 2008 The Astronomical Journal 136
