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From: billc@prism.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: X3J11 meeting notes
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Date: 21 Dec 87 19:36:00 GMT
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Nf-From: prism.UUCP!billc    Dec 21 14:36:00 1987


> ISO asked for "UTC" ("Universal Time Coordinated").  To me, it sounds
> like the French messing around with things.  I honestly don't know the
> correct official terminology for international time standards.
> Somebody else suggested "UT0".  I would appreciate an authoritative
> answer to the question "What is the correct name to use in speaking
> of the international Universal Time standard?"  I was going to drive
> down to the NBS and find out, but I didn't have time.

	Found this in sci.astro:

> UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is measured by atomic clocks.
> UT1 or UT (Universal Time) is the mean solar time at Greenwich.