In message <[email protected]>, Brooks Harris writes:

>I think I understand you. You are saying that UTC as a term for the 

I'm saying that UTC is Universal Time Coordinated, such as defined
and used by telcos for a decade by the time UNIX was written.

What was "inside" UTC didn't mater to them, UTC was the accepted
international timescale and they used it as such.

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