On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:52, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Some other trivia: GPS runs on neither TAI (international atomic time) > nor UTC (which one could call civil time) (no comment). You'll have to > compensate yourself. NTP is probably supposed to use UTC, but leap > seconds are not implemented. Whenever there is a leap second in UTC, > (in the words of David Mills, inventor of NTP) "the behaviour of NTP > can be described in terms of a pinball machine". No comment either. UTC is my *favourite* acronym. It stands for Universal Coordinated Time, but the astute will notice that the letters are in the wrong order. Apparently, there was disagreement between the English speaking and French speaking creators about the language used for the acronym. In the end they compromised used an acronym that is neither English (UCT) or French (TUC?).
I thought the main difference between UTC and GMT was that GMT did not have leap-seconds. Would that make GPS-time the same as GMT? -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
