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- From: utah-cs!hplabs!hpfcla!hpfclj!hpfcdg!rgt (Ron Tolley)
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 86 13:28:15 est
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- >> GMT and UTC are not the same.
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- > UTC is an average of all the contributing countrys' clocks (US, UK,
- >France, Italy, Japan etc all contribute to UTC). The change of UTC
- >to stay close to UT1 (the "spinning earth" time) is through the adding
- >or subtracting of leap seconds. BIH makes recommendations for such
- >leap seconds and it is up to the individual countries to follow them.
- >I don't know of any case where a leap second recommedation was not
- >followed by a country for its clocks; it doesn't make sense to disregard them.
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- Rumor has it that Queensland, Australia is 4 seconds off from the rest
- of the world. I don't recall whether I saw it on this notes strings or
- heard it in passing conversation with some of my Australian contacts.
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- With all (or any) due respect, Australia alone could keep us busy trying
- to keep up with its (her/his) departures from normal time keeping.
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- Ron Tolley
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- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 3
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