[LEAPSECS] what happened in Geneva

[Steve Allen]

ask google to search for
"Future of the Coordinated Universal Time time scale"
the result should be
https://www.itu.int/md/dologin_md.asp?id=R12-WRC12-C-0507!!MSW-E

For ITU-R languages other than English replace the end E by other
letters such as, I think, F, R, A, S

search down for
RESOLUTION COM6/20 (WRC 12)
to see what the WRC said about UTC.

Note that the numbers 1.14, 2.5, 2.6 are Radio Regulations from
Article 1 and Article 2.

http://life.itu.ch/radioclub/rr/art01.htm
(dated 2009)

    1.14 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): Time scale, based on the
    second (SI), as defined in ITU-R Recommendation ITU-R TF.460-4.
    (WRC-03)

way back in 1992 it used to be that 1.14 said

    1.14 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) Time scale, based on the
    second (SI), as defined in Recommendation ITU-R TF.460-6.
    (WRC-03) For most practical purposes associated with the Radio
    Regulations, UTC is equivalent to mean solar time at the prime
    meridian (0B0 longitude), formerly expressed in GMT.

http://life.itu.ch/radioclub/rr/art02.htm
(dated 2005)

    2.5 Whenever a date is used in connection with Coordinated
    Universal Time (UTC), this date shall be that of the prime
    meridian at the appropriate time, the prime meridian corresponding
    to zero degrees geographical longitude.

    2.6 Whenever a specified time is used in international
    radiocommunication activities, UTC shall be applied, unless
    otherwise indicated, and it shall be presented as a four-digit
    group (0000-2359).  The abbreviation UTC shall be used in all
    languages.

Note with great amusement that radio regulation 2.5 defines the
concept of UTC date using terminology directly derived from the
rotation of the earth.  (What other option is there?)

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