[LEAPSECS] POSIX Time

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Oct 13 13:33:22 EDT 2009


In message: <4AD4A907.40809 at comcast.net>
ashtongj <ashtongj at comcast.net> writes:

: Steve Allen wrote "In the time scales for TAI, LORAN-C, GPS, and

: now BST the word "day" already has a meaning more clearly

: communicated by "atomic day".

:

: Is BST British Summer Time? If so, is there some new statute in the

: UK adopting time offset from UTC rather than offset from the ill-defined

: GMT? (Of course the offset is 0 in the winter.)


BST is the Chinese navigation satellite time base. I forget what the
B stands for.

Warner


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