[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions
Greg Hennessy
greg.hennessy at cox.net
Sun Jan 12 15:42:57 EST 2014
On 01/12/2014 02:47 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <52D20BEB.60709 at edlmax.com>, Brooks Harris writes:
>
>
>> Yes, in my opinion its unfortunate they chose to use the term "UTC" in
>> that context.
>
> They chose UTC because they meant UTC.
>
> I have this directly from multiple persons who were involved back
> then, including Dennis Ritchie who gave me the full sordid details
> about the early UNIX' requirement of weekly recompiles to update
> the epoch of the timekeeping.
If they chose UTC because they meant UTC, then why do the
man pages refer not to UTC, but to GMT?
http://cm.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol1/man2.bun
It sounds like you are rewriting history.
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