[LEAPSECS] presentations from AAS Future of Time sessions

[Rob Seaman]

On Jan 13, 2014, at 1:54 PM, John Hawkinson <jhawk at MIT.EDU> wrote:


> In other news, the count of the number of times in this thread folks

> have said "Universal Time Coordinated" instead of "Coordinated

> Universal Time" is higher than I would expect. (Coordinated Universal

> Time is the proper expansion of UTC, for international compromise

> reasons). I feel like this is similar to the times people say "GMT"

> when they mean "UTC," and possibly for similar reasons.


For diplomatic and legal usage, see also:

	http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/preprints/files/8_AAS%2013-505_Gabor.pdf
	http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/preprints/files/9_AAS%2013-505discussion.pdf

and:

	http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/2011/preprints/04_AAS_11-662_Seago.pdf
	http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/2011/preprints/05_AAS_11-662_discuss_2.pdf

Rob