On 12 Apr 11, at 0903, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Ian Batten > wri > tes: > >> and thereafter contracts would add "times in >> this contract shall be assumed to be UTC" to the definitions section. > > Don't forget that a lot of obscure contracts with large technical > impact already states UTC explicitly: Air Traffic Control, AIS > Vessel tracking, telecoms accounting/settelment, NATO, meteology &c.
It will be interesting to find out if there are contracts which cite UTC by name and which also assume that UTC is a close-enough measure of angular position, rather than TAI+constant. ian _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
