In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes:

>The strength and reach of their arm is exaggerated by Dr.  Beard and
>coauthors [...]

This has nothing to do with who invented UTC, but about if their
lawful decisions get implemented or ignored.

If you want a relevant technical precedent, look at the OSI protocols:
They were ITU standards which everybody ignored in preference for TCP/IP
which actually worked.

>It looks like that part of the story will not be presented to the
>delegates to the ITU-R Radiocommunications Assembly when they vote
>next year.

How would it possibly be relevant to the question at hand  ?

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