[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Warner Losh]

On Jan 12, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Greg Hennessy wrote:


> 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.


GMT and UTC were used interchangeably well into the 1990s, especially in publication not subject to peer review of subject experts...

Warner