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From: rpw3
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1984 09:05
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1984 09:05
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fortune!rpw3 Feb 5 00:58:00 1984
And the reason it's called "Coordinated Universal Time" is because it
was coordinated by treaty a few years back. I don't remember the year,
but eleven or so nations all took leap seconds (ranging from -12 to +9
as I recall - the U.S. was -7 ???) to get together. All of their clocks
were absolute time (not related to astronomy) based on either cesium
beam or (ammonia?). Now we all take leap seconds together ("coordinated")
as needed to stay close to astro time.
(A "true history" would be nice, but probably in net.physics. Somebody?)
Rob Warnock
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