System.Time.Clock Design Issues

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Fri Feb 4 07:00:37 EST 2005


In article <87vf9835x7.fsf at sefirot.ii.uib.no>,
 Ketil Malde <ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no> wrote:

> Isn't UTC prior to the epoch defined as UT1?  I seem to remember
> reading this, but couldn't find the reference atm.

I believe civil time prior to 1972 (which is more a date of establishing 
UTC than an epoch) was defined as UT1. It was called "Greenwich Mean 
Time" in those days.

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA



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