On 18 January 2012 08:28, Poul-Henning Kamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Which part of "Coordinated" did you not understand in UTC ? > > UTC's semantics is "the timescale we agree to coordinate on", its > relationship to the heavens above was merely a convenient matter > of implementation. > Well I've always interpretted it as a "co-ordinated form of UT". Steve Allens next email implies others viewed it that way as well. The recent "terminology" pdf also makes the same point about the meaning of the acronym and phrase. Its the attempted "theft" of the meaning of UTC that grates most with me. Stephen
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