[LEAPSECS] Caveat emptor!

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 10 Apr 2011 at 22:08, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> UTC *is* the timescale that has been legislated already.


In some places.  Others stick with "Greenwich Mean Time" or something 
else based on solar time at some meridian, while some don't even seem 
to be sure of what they're basing their time standard on (there are 
some laws/regulations/standards documents that have versions in 
multiple languages that actually say UTC in some of them and GMT in 
others).  The places that do use UTC as their official standard most 
likely do so because it's "good enough for government work" as an 
approximation of GMT.  It would be a big "bait and switch" to 
suddenly plunge those places onto a time standard that isn't moored 
in any way to solar time.


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