[LEAPSECS] drift of TAI

[Richard B. Langley]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Steve Allen wrote:


>Along those lines ...

>The earliest use of the term UTC as such (and TUC in the French) that

>I have found is in the Jan/Feb 1964 Bulletin Horaire from the BIH.

>This was the first issue done by Guinot after Anna Stoyko gave it up.

>

>Does anyone know of a use of the term UTC/TUC which predates that?


At the time I wrote this for lay people
<http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/GMT.UT.and.the.RGO.html> (scroll down to "The Origin
of UTC"), I knew of nothing earlier.
-- Richard


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