To answer tvb's question, there are contracts that require UTC explicitly. There is no qualification as to what UTC is or which version to use if there are several!!! Relatively recent US statute mandates UTC as the civil time scale. The only qualification is that whatever DoD and USNO think UTC should be is what it is. I don't have any specific contract examples at hand, but I am sure that there are many.
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