In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Bunclark writes: >On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ed Davies wrote: >> On the other hand, I rather snigger at the reservation of the >> word "universal" to mean time based on the Earth's rotation. >> It's all rather parochial but it is the established terminology. >Doesn't "Universal" hint at the join of the SI second and Solar Time?
Oftentimes labels of X are put on things to give the impression of a good bit more X than is actually at hand. I suspect that "Universal" in UTC has the same lineage as "democratic" in "The Democratic Republic of Congo". UTCs proper name would have been ITC, "International Time Coordinated". -- 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.
