-------- In message <[email protected]>, Steve Allen writes:
>UTC is not a technical standard, it is a political construct. >That's why LORAN-C, GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, and the Indian satellite >system chose to construct their own time scales rather than to use UTC. UTC is very much a technical standard, written to solve the problem of "what time did it happen" in international (and thus political) relations. The boiler-plate ass-covering you point to has always been there and has nothing specifically to do with UTC. -- 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] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
