[LEAPSECS] "old UTC" and "new UTC"

2012-03-24 Thread Steve Allen
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 als

Re: [LEAPSECS] "old UTC" and "new UTC"

2012-03-24 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <20120324205441.ga9...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >There is also the interesting assertion that in the US the NBS was >responsible for frequency and USNO was responsible for time. I have heard that stated also by Prof. Dave Mills. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog

Re: [LEAPSECS] "old UTC" and "new UTC"

2012-03-24 Thread Warner Losh
On Mar 25, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20120324205441.ga9...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: > >> There is also the interesting assertion that in the US the NBS was >> responsible for frequency and USNO was responsible for time. > > I have heard that stated also