In message <[email protected]>, "Finklema n, Dave" writes:
>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!!! I have several examples of such contracts, and agreements. The crucial point for them all is the 'C' letter: UTC is the time they trust to be the same everywhere. It doesn't much matter much what time it is, as long as everybody can agree that it is the same time. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
