[LEAPSECS] Footnote about CCITT and UTC

[Tony Finch]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Zefram wrote:

>

> [ISO 8601 is] neutral about whether and when leap seconds may occur:

> that's an application issue. The timezone designators are specifically

> described as being relative to UTC, but it is more consistent with the

> rest of the standard to treat that mention of UTC as actually referring

> to vague UT.


I can't see anything in ISO 8601-2000 or -2004 that supports "vague UT".
Both versions of the standard are quite specific about times of day being
UTC or at a specific offset from UTC.

Tony.
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