In message <43BF0597.9050702_at_gsfc.nasa.gov>, William Thompson writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> Universal Time = confusing term which comes handy when trying to
>> manipulate discussions about leap second futures.
>
>I have to take issue with this one.
My point was that when you just say "Universal Time", how will we know
if you mean UTC, UT0, UT1 or UT2 ?
>It's obvious from the current definition
>and terminology used with Coordinated Universal Time that the original intent
>was that UTC would be more-or-less synchronous with UT0, UT1, UT2. The current
>debate is whether we should move away from that original intent.
Correct: we are talking about what the Leap(time) function should do.
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Received on Sat Jan 07 2006 - 00:18:50 PST