[LEAPSECS] operational time -- What's in a name?

[Rob Seaman]

Working backwards through the messages.

On Mar 28, 2008, at 1:22 PM, M. Warner Losh wrote:


> How is that any different than the ITU defining UTC to generally

> behave as time has behaved for centuries, except that leap seconds

> have a new notation (the :60 stuff)?


ITU didn't create UTC since they didn't exist at the time.

Grep for messages from Mark Calabretta as to why UTC isn't multi-valued.

Rob Seaman
NOAO