[LEAPSECS] Caveat emptor!

[Ian Batten]

On 12 Apr 11, at 0903, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:


> In message <7A41C92F-9BEC-4FDC-9809-071F2D624CF3 at batten.eu.org>, Ian Batten wri

> tes:

> 

>> and thereafter contracts would add "times in

>> this contract shall be assumed to be UTC" to the definitions section.

> 

> Don't forget that a lot of obscure contracts with large technical

> impact already states UTC explicitly:  Air Traffic Control, AIS

> Vessel tracking, telecoms accounting/settelment, NATO, meteology &c.


It will be interesting to find out if there are contracts which cite UTC by name and which also assume that UTC is a close-enough measure of angular position, rather than TAI+constant.

ian