David,

I would prefer to say that everyone uses UTC adjusted by a constant offset to
their time zone.  It is Atomic Time (TAI) that is offset by an initial amount
and then adjusted by leap seconds to obtain UTC.

Gordon


At 05:46 AM 2/25/99 , David Higgon wrote:
 It's used by the scientific community
>because of its acuracy, but not by anyone else, and whenever it strays too
>far from GMT, leap seconds are used to bring it back in line.

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